THE HOPE OF THE TIME.
A voice from the ocean is crying, "We are fallen in the ebb of Time ; That the glory of earth is dying, And the world is past its prime ; That Nature and mind are at war, As soul is at strife with sense, And the promise that beaconed afar Is waniDg and fading hence." But a sound is heard over all the land That a joyful time is near at hand, When man shall no more be little and vain, And the golden age cornea back again. And the voice of the ocean 1b singing "That Nature and mind should be oneNature, the eagle, winging On mind's pinions to the sun : sun of the hope of the time, fr. The sun of the truth to be, The sun that shone in the prime When Nature and man were free." Far a sound is heard over all the land That a joyful time is near at hand, When man shall no more be little and vain And the golden age comes back again. But if mind return in splendour, Ruler of worlds unborn, And vanquished Nature shall render Tribute, her might forßwom— Ah ! then shall we see the light, Or the breaking of the day, The angel man arising in might, And Death in grand decay ! For a sound is heard over all the land That a joyful time is near at hand, When man shall no more be little and vain And the golden age comes back again. — D. M. Wright. Tabletops, Hakaterainea Valley, June 1891.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2104, 21 June 1894, Page 39
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