TWO NEW IMRIE POEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2402, 15 March 1900, Page 63

TWO NEW IMRIE POEMS.

j BETWEEN THE CENTURIES. • 1839-1900.

Oh! thoughtful man! pause, kneel, and humbly

pray, Ere yet the dying Century pass away — Wit.i all its mundane triumphs, joys, and

tears, — Most solemn moment of an hundred years! Behold ! what mighty works were done in thee : The earth encompas'd — bonded slaves sel free! — •' Dread lightnings taught to do man's urgent ' will ! — God's voice in Arbitration — "Peace! be still!" And " Know that I am God alone" on earth, Who gives and guides the Centuries from birth! Oh, man! thus guided, enter on the New, — Arise, and work ! — " to thine own self be true !"• Let each successive generation give Its meed of Truth and Progress that shall live! —JOHN IMRIE. Toronto, Canada. > TO MY FRIENDS. The friendship of the good and true Is more to me than gold, And while I welcome one that's new I'll treasure well the old; Old friends are like the goodly tree Whose leafy branches throw A grateful shelter over me When adverse winds may blow ! Friends dead and gone, friends far and near, Friends tried and true, friends ever dear, Thcugh sundered far, yet all are hera — Close to my heart ; And all along Life's rugged way, * The smile of Friendship crowns the day, And hearts are young, tho' heads be greyFriends never part. —JOHN IMRIE, Toronto, Canada.

— The length of the solar year is 365 'days 6hr and nearly 3min. At the end of the four years these overplus six hours * will have formed a day, and so the fourth year is made to consist of 366 days. Hence Leap Year. Than, to provide for the overplus of nearly three miuutes a. year. Leap Year is omitted in 1700, 1800, and 1900. There still remains a slight irregularity, to rectify which this cessation of Leap Year is not observed in the fourth hundred year, and thus 2000 will be a leap year.

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TESTIMONIAL.

Mr E. H. Browne, comity engineer, writes as follows : — Mr S. J. Evans.

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RICHARD. H, BRO.W2iS*.S^