THE TASK'S FULL."

Otago Witness, Issue 2685, 30 August 1905, Page 76

THE TASK'S FULL."

When April, tailed with its flowers* Lay parched at Winter's doer, A sigh through all the suHry hours My thirsty garden bore ; Bui" when the Gardonei's promise came* The Ifddie from the school, All heedless of the dieiiching rain, Came shouting down the country lane* "Daddy, tha tank's full!" All night the sound of dripping eves Foretold that xacm should be, For tangled flowers with cTioopmg leaves, A time of ecstasy. Th.it night a bliss was on my clreaniSj The garden 1 air was cool ; And through the bliss, as if in prayer,. I heard a glad child voice declaie, "Daddy, tho tank's full!" Full often we are wont to doubt Our Father's gentle care. When showers h?ve ceased to fall about) The gaiaen of our prayer. 'Tl3 but a ■wondrous way He hath, . Our wanton \vill= to school ; For soon, like children glad we cry, 'Mid showers of Messing from on high, "Daddy, the tank's full!" Inverc irgill, August, 1905.