SOUL-LIFE.
(From the " Portland. Transcript." Not und< >• Hi* snows of Winter, The brown turf and th»- mould, Do I seek my brown-eyed darling*, Who iitifo paisod from thin rnrthly fold ; But tho air is peopled round mo, With beauty and lor* hu-I power ; And my toul finds p» ace imd comfort With my lored oies eruiy hour. I know of no ftroflT country, Bi'Tond my Icon mid ic»oh ; A plirulowy land of plmntoms, O ( ' which your churchmen tcioh ; M> hciTen it all around me, ily Sayiour, a friend moot, near, And the present it full of inunir, Its melody tweut and elf ar. You may call mo \n idle ("irutoier, But I riia from your diukened Ti«w> ' And n plory fitllt about Pit, In the huppi^r plane 1 ohoosi\ Qod't wisdom it far beyond m«, But Hn lore it mine to hold, And und»-v Hi* wing I linger, Away from the night and the cold. Bccftuio of the lore Ho bears me, I ihnll cTtr hold my place ; Booaute of the faith llu eivot me, I shall one day nee His face ; Because of the life eternal, I shall live though earth thall fall, For G-od in Hit infinite goodness, Is Maker and keeper of all.
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North Otago Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 1867, 20 April 1878, Page 5 (Supplement)
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