Selected Poetry

Otago Witness, Issue 1355, 17 November 1877, Page 19

Selected Poetry

VANITY.

The sun comes up and the sun goes down, ". And day and night are the same aa one :■. The year grows green and the year grows brown, And what is it all when all is done ? Grains of sombre or shining sand, ' ' Shining into or out of the hand: [' , ' And men go down in ships to the seas, And a hundred ships are the game 'as one ; ' And backward and forward blows the breeze, And what is it all when all is dona ? „ ; :\ A tide with never a shore in sight ; - [ , i Setting steadily on to the night.The fisher droppeth his net ia the stream,- ' • And a hundred streams are the same as one ;' And the maiden dreameth her loye^lit dream, And what is it all when all ie done ? ' The net of the fisher the burden breaks, ' ' And always the dreaming the dreamer walces. • ' PAUL OR CHRIST. ; ' " / suffer not that any woman teach, Or bear the message of the Lord's goodwill.: Let her keep silence ; she hath no oall to preach ; 'Tis hers to learn and modestly sit stilt Thus the Apostle ? Yet the risen Lord, Waiting beside the newly-broken tomb, For messenger to send with his first word Unto the church within that upper room, Chose by a woman with a loving heart. , (Oh ! fair her feet with these glad tiding! shod) : ' . "I am risen, and I now depart , And go unto our Father and our God." Did Christ make some mistake, that first by her The truth and light of Resurrection shone ? He Mary chose to be his messenger. Would Paul have sent St. Peter or St. John p THE FISHER'S CALL. The mist is aff the hill, The simmer morning's breaking, And ilka little rill , , A merry music's making ; . The shepherd's left his cot, . The clover-field the maukin,' ' Then up, let's hae'a day 6't — Waukm, fishers, waukin'! ■. " A' nature's blythe and gay— i1 1 Bonnie flowers are bldomin* ' ,> ■ - On mossy bank and brae,- „ Wood and glen perfumin', ; > The mavis tak's the >ree, , „.',' _' ' . The wind blaws saf t and steady, Then up and follow me — ' ' ;'; ' 1 ■ Ready, fishers, ready! ' -■ < m Bring the'osier creel, '. Bring' the rod and tackle,- l > • Bring the ready Teel • . ' i The woodcock wing and -hackle. , ;. . ; Yonder flows the liver — ■" ; Txoots in every eddy, . ''' Drop your 'flees Hke gossamer- 1 -. Steady, fishers, steady ! '••<«" •■ •)