HOW CAN WE TELL?
We have no mnsic meet! Above our beads the starry dome doth swell ;
The dead are at our feet.
The sea along the shore
Doth roll with hollow sound ; The cataract, with muffled roar,
Falls through the glen profound.
The tender grasses deck
' The earth with vernal green; The wintry storms their force and fury wreck Upon the pines that spire the sullen hills between.
The eyes that shone are dim with pain ; The stricken creature calls; The night upon the earth again With triple daikness falls.
How can we tell?
We have no music meet. We trust that all will yet be well; With chi'.d-hke faith we cast ourselves at Jesu's feet.
— Charles Oscab Palmeb.' Kaikoura, October, 1905.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2695, 8 November 1905, Page 67
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123HOW CAN WE TELL? Otago Witness, Issue 2695, 8 November 1905, Page 67
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