SUGGESTED BY A FINE INTAGLIO.

Otago Witness, Issue 2529, 3 September 1902, Page 58

SUGGESTED BY A FINE INTAGLIO.

"NULLA DIES SINE LINEA," •

O precious thought and tair 1 Figured from out the long-flown past. Light on the craftsman's toil 13 cast Whose lea«or , infinite and vast, Is found engraven there. Then fin^i, still inc:e fine, Be touch unfaltering and unswerving skill; Pntience impatient; so the tempered will Thy thought, Epheeinn, shall fulh. — "No day without a line. ' Thus in the human field, ■With hie enriched by ail its need, Though hand should fail and heart should The thought shall fiie, the t-.oul succeed, And treasure surely yield. Hire gem! whose facets shine With lustre eloquent us hpeech. These deeply-gra\en lines s>hull teach Until the oat lent scholar reach A day without a line. "A line for every day l " And. be the method old or new, The deep-drawn furrows many or few, O Great Engraver, let Thy de\> Fall with Thy searching ray. • • • Thus may we dare to read Man's artistry and Thine entwined. Till, horn by horn, the life resigned To workmanship so well refined produce a gem indeed. And should dark hours combine To tempi, the toiler to a baser way, Let Faith and Hope his courage stfiv, Ard thought from day to braver day Recall Ap. lies' line. Auckland. * Apol'.ps s motto.