LIFE.
Not for a fleeting day, O love, but for th' unending afisrtirua Let every page of this heroic plfly Be writ in burning rhyme. ! No struttirgs on the stage — j Mouthings of empty yauntmgs haughtily — ■ Ko garish lights, no weird, deceptive shades. Xo faud vulgarity. No strivings after fame, No shunning of the lowliest needful task, i No burning wish for an unfailing name — | Mumming behind the mask. j Ah! Not to act — to live, Carslaes alike of long app!au°e and I cheers ; — Give every day, though brief and fugitive, Trust fca eternal years. — Chakles Oscar Palmer.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2861, 13 January 1909, Page 71
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98LIFE. Otago Witness, Issue 2861, 13 January 1909, Page 71
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