THE BISHOP OF RIPON'S NEW YEAR WORDS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1726, 29 March 1905, Page 77 (Supplement)

THE BISHOP OF RIPON'S NEW YEAR WORDS

?/;. v/'T/Ofd, we know not whither Thou go- ■; caii ; A\'e> kiiotv. tlx©: yway ?”-rr John;,■//''-./‘•/.v: p ' -We knmV not -where "we go';--;.-' : : - . /We move each day .. ; / On to some far-off unknown goal, > v, How can we know the way ? ‘ ■, And frustrate; seemeth life, '' / Its joy and woe ; '7/ 7S// / When dimness the mark ... - Where ■ can- life’s-: arrows go f " C- [p But ’ coward is this thought;; v--si /• ■ j ■ When .men there are ’-/• -:■ Who dare the dread wide-simdering sea Bed by a lonely : star. ' • In the low plains of life . ' ' ■ Men choose their goal: Men . follow right in scorn of fate In the -high, realms of soul. •' And he • who leaf Christ ’s : l ore, ’ And- cloth obey, *■ Knows aa’cll-—loveemiy is the goal . Aiid. love itself the y way. ' : ; - Duties that useless seem It done each day ;• In God’s dear love will shed the light Which will reveal the: way. —"Yorkshire Weekly Post.”