THE BROWN FLOWER.
, 'And it came to pass after 30 years that ' Death went to visit a lonely woman who was at the end of her journey. And ■■■ death, Death the all-seeing, before whom all things are laid bare, looked into the /lonely woman's bosom. Once there had ' been brilliant flowers . laid' there/ by the hand of a man;: Rapturous-Joy—but that had been nipped by "a cruel frost; Sweet-union-in-daily-life—that she had given up to another; the Sweet-touch-of-handsit . had dropned from her while she was stiTl yonng; Hope-in-the-futureit had faded, and faded slowly, away from her. But when Death looked into her bosom, lying against the old, shrivelled breast was still - one small, brown flower, fresh and tender ■ as on the day the man laid it there, and the name of the flower was Trust.— From Stories, Dreams, and Allegories, by Olive Schreiner.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18397, 12 May 1923, Page 4 (Supplement)
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142THE BROWN FLOWER. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18397, 12 May 1923, Page 4 (Supplement)
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