ELEGIAC VERSES.
The hoary hills abide from age to age,
Ihe boundless waters and the beauteous shore , Is man content to read this wondrous page
One moment and to pass for evermore?
Insatiable as the shoreless sea,
I cannot pass and perish in a day, For, O! I feel that I am built to be Sublime when all ijie worlds have passed away.
Then build no monumental brass above The lowly mound where this tired frame shall sleep ; I'll live a larger life where 'Holy Love
Doth brood for ever o'er the boundless deep.
My flowerets, forest fragrances, and all
My mountain solitudes and shoreless deeps — Not one of these may from my spirit fall . 'Tis Satan bhndeth him who bends and weeps.
I see th' untrodden vastnesses of time,
Far-spreading to eternity, I feel O, more than may be told in transient rhyme, And wait the glories God will yet Teveal. * — Charles Oscab Palmes. Kahoutera, Hills, June 21.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2572, 1 July 1903, Page 72
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159ELEGIAC VERSES. Otago Witness, Issue 2572, 1 July 1903, Page 72
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