SOUNDINGS.
" Little we know of the hoary Sea Till the Me-n of Lead and Line Solve in i tithe of its mystery, shew Strange gleams of the limitless hfe below With their soundings: here be mine." HYSSOP. O, the wholesome, purging Soulh-Weet Wind, And tho hilltops where it blows From over tho free Unsullied Sea And the stainless sifted snowe! How it strippeth away, like a Surgeon-God With his knife that cutfceth keen, All tho morbid thought That the day ,hath wrought, And Leaveth tho Spirit clean ! I equare me; full-face I meet its sweep, And the petty life of men, The foolish prat© And tli© tiivial hate Drop off; I am born again! lam born again : with a child's quick ,ove, See, I turn mo to my kind; And ray heart leaps light As the cloud-rack whit© That ride 6 on the riot wind. Maestab. i
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Otago Witness, Issue 2849, 21 October 1908, Page 88
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162SOUNDINGS. Otago Witness, Issue 2849, 21 October 1908, Page 88
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