The Wise Men
!:;! Now it is night. Dew is falling. |;:s [:li Stars pass, like sheep, in droves j!: i;i across the sky : Sj; I lie and watch them, , '■ = Sip Travellers on a desert waste, i 2 g!:! And wonder why J jjjj A certain star once showed the !• | [ji; Wise Men ; g |!ii Where to go ■ " jiij IVas it so that in the light of stars, j : Ejji Men might know something of seren- |;| ■!i ity? That He Would teach ! 5 [J them \ [iii To look into the simple heavens i ; !• And find immensity before all j|S ! ji things? i; | 6'if I think the stars knew ' i:s S i That he would point the Way |.S j i Out of the dust. And so one shone 15 I i Much clearer than the rest, \ ■ ijii And the Wise Men followed after, ijijj j i —K. M. Knight. ji:
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21990, 22 December 1934, Page 10 (Supplement)
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149The Wise Men New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21990, 22 December 1934, Page 10 (Supplement)
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