LAUS MORTIS.
Nay. why should I- fear Death, Who gives us life, and :n exchange takes breath? He is like cordial Spring, That, lifts above the soil each buried thing; The lordliest of all things'— Life lending.only feet, Death gives w# wings. O, all ye < frightened folk, Whether, ye wear a crown or bear a yoke, W*aut daybreak need you fear?— The Love will rule you there that guides you here.' • Where Life, the sower, stands. Scattering the ages from his swinging hands, •Thou waitest, Reaper lone. Until the multitudinous grain hath grown. Scytbebearer. when thy blade Harvests my flesh, let me be unafraid. .God's husbandman thou art, Iti His imwithering sheaves 0 bind my heart ! —ME. FBED. L. knowlbs, ... Iu Harper's Magaaiue ;
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12546, 13 April 1904, Page 1 (Supplement)
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