Westminster Gazette.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLV, Issue 139, 17 June 1911, Page 6

Westminster Gazette.

0! WINDS

Mr Harold Begbie, in some ■yerses in j tho Westminster Gazette, entitled ] "An Enemy," thus depicts the havoc i which the- cold weather has wrought j in tho gurdo-n: —

"Mx garden hides from heaven her

sorrowed f-fioe, No garden now; rather a burial place For tender infancy that laughed m

vain; Beauty and innocence, and hope are

slam ; Something . that hoteth God's fair

universe Ff-ith set on April's brow the,winter "of its curse. ~ ' ' 'Tis wanton, O 'tis wanton to destroy - Tini slender loveliness God mado'i'or-

joy* Jf'e who did turn the first year's

timorous eyes From winter's gr-ave to spring's resur-

gent skies; 6 winds, ye make;- Him break His ancient word, Whence comes your pow'r to flaunt the everlasting Lord? ■ '