THE VEILED FUTURE.
(Walt Mason.) We know not what a day shall bring, I what brand of weal or n*oe; so let its smile and let us sing, and trip fantastic toe We may feel sure to-morrow s sun wiil hide, the whole day long; and when all things arc said and done, our guesses will he wrong. We may insist that dark-wreen grief to-morrow s brow will wear rand yet the dawn may bring relief from all the woes we beat; No man should look ahead and say, "To-morrow is a frost, so f shall wail around to-day. and weep, and blame the cost. And so as 1 have often said, in dirges fierce but brief, it's foolishment to look ahead for further stores of grief. It s vain to rend our beard and .say. "To-morrows charged with fate"; far better to envoy to-day bet ore it pulls its freight, this day is ours this cheerful morn; all yesterday's are dead; all other days are yet unbe.ti. tho stretch ol -days ahead. This dn\ is ours, dear, sweet Hung. I until it ambles by: so let us dance and
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10526, 2 December 1916, Page 9
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190THE VEILED FUTURE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10526, 2 December 1916, Page 9
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