RESIGNATION OF LORD SALISBURY.

Otago Witness, Issue 2528, 27 August 1902, Page 59

RESIGNATION OF LORD SALISBURY.

Cru ld added lank or order decorate

that form, pathetic in its lonely age.

Or crown ajiew that still benignant i ?ge, Bowed with the care and ctiinbrance? of State? Ye^ in the people's heart is shrine prepared For those, like him, who warred for truth and right,

Who held in leash. Ambition's hasty flight, And firmly hindered while they nobly dured With vision purified and keener «ight,

This peerless statesman, sitting m the shade, Sees greater glory than he di earned— who stayed And raised an Empire to Imperial height ; Yet craves but space beneath the arching sky "With his beloved to rest — in peace to lie.

Who wrought like Vulcan, and like Atlas reared Thia fabric wonderful, now seeks but rest — To lean a tired head on Nature' b breast, And learn her secrets with a soul unseared ; To scan the mysteries that lie between

Man and the feet of God ; to hear the sound Of echoing anthems m that vast profound Hither and thither of the parting screen. , O sage, still learning, a3 they feet descend The pathway leading to our mortal dust

Lessors immortal, hope, all fair and trust Be thine thy footsteps as they fail, to tend,

To lift thine eyes to everlasting years, And lend thee music from the luring spheres. — Joyce Jocelyx.

Auckland, July 17.