THE POET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5496, 28 June 1879, Page 3

THE POET.

• Deep, deep are the burning thoughts that glolir • Within the Poet's mind; : " < - •Thought »Her thought, they come ana they go;' And ever and aye, their rapid flow ■) •'■ . ■'.;■-.'. All chronicle leaves behind. -- ; • 'i i ,-'.r'." - What glowingthoughts' of passionate love, ; _ ■■'•"' c'" Or passionless despair, -< ; ;. ;-j "-:-. '_• .' v--Through his mind thronginfjly ever ■. . ' ' Now tiger-fierce, now soft as a dove,': ■, -■ ,\ i_• Kow dark, and now bright and fair, .-. ■ '.['. . And, unto him, is given the power : • The human ioul to move; ;: ' r-~ To brighten it up in darksome hour '. ""..'. ■ When the gloo i>y clouds ol sorrow lour J Or aoltly melt it to love. ■ . ■'■; ; E,'en the souls ol the warriors melt - ■-~•■;-' At Love's soft, glowing song. " '■•'■'' E'en the maiden luU often hath ielt ' .; A martial glow as the Poet dealt ■■'■'■" i--V '.=■"■ \Vith rush ol vrarrior throng. Kow, the Poet, in soft, glowing strains ! Dwells'on" the power ol Lore. -. ''.•-' .''■<• ~ Now; on the lost soul's torturing pains; :,.'::;:> ''!' Now, on the bright and beautiful plains .:..-. • o-.,-: :.'.- - Of the Elysium above. ; - - , -s /.d':^ 'Now, he battlej for right, and describes .:--«f>vr Tlie right from what is wrong; . : t c.:.■.-,-. ,"0 :i Or stirs the soul against venal bribes; .ultsssO "ft ■ Or at polemical diatribes" "■ ■ — l ,,'» J l'.' - i< i Launches the power of song. ~'. '•!; -1 "„'.''!.' ■'■" NoWi'to htaven^heraises the.sonl ,'i "i> > 'iV'l\' Witholmandhply strain; ■.-,.."-. • ... ," ■i Or ieads Despair on to Hope's sweet goat " ' ' "•■'" jprgently, with soft, low, dulcet , roll, -'--=,•'"';"• ; '■'. - i .Sootheth our mental p^iri.'^ , - "',•'•• ••■'- '"' 'oPoet! howKreatlhe : Bodlli£e'pDwet' ;; "' J s ;; '• Given, unto thy hand— O rightly use thy glorious dower ! — Howdid'stthouuseit, in thy life's hour! OZ thee will thy God demand. Auckland. AiVWD SHAKE-