CHANGINGS THE WATCH.

Otago Witness, Issue 2569, 10 June 1903, Page 63

CHANGINGS THE WATCH.

(In lcmclK memory of one whoso gentleness 19 tUe (Oud ie.coHect.on of many. Vx Brovrn ) Eie fades the night away At dawn of day, A stillness like to sleep Couves o'er the deep. . . ( Ah day the breakers nde, White-crested, on the tide ; All night they moan From zone to zone ; But ere the break of diy 'lhcy rest— so fisheis say. But so intent they gaze Upon the net, Tnat fishei-folk fcrget Amid the haze To mark that uillows cease their sway To gieet the guaids of night and day, Who pass all silently Ftpm saa to range, And, wondering, thej agiei 'Tis very strange — Fcr fishers cannot &cc Tho washes chpnpe. — J. M\clexxvx. Te Kohanga, Dunedin, May, 1003.

< k JEiN" (P. C. H.) Slender of form is she, dainty and sweet As meadow flowers that bend on delicate stalks ; So light of feet that scarce her linj feet Can bei.d the tender grasses where she walks. Fresh as the dawn is that Madoiir.a face, "With broad white brow, banded with soft b.owu hair; In her blue eyes ycu can the fountain trace Of Love and Gentleness, that ha-rbour there. Aixl a.« shs passes by, she leaves behind A siibtle perfume, "as of blossoms rare, Whose *=v,isetnes3, gathered by the evening wind, Is scattered bioatl-cast through the evening air. Oil, Hope and Happiness! guard ye her feet! Make the path radiant for her cfciy by day; Flowers, shed aiound her all your incisnse sweet — Spring up about her all along Life's way! — M. G .Hayter. March 20, 1903.