GOD-SPEED.
TO T H. IT. I What shall I wish Thee for the year That comes? That all Thou boldest dear Pass through the furnace and return At length more exquisitely clear? Dare I.' Yea, Friend, that wish I dare. Tiicu art no w eakling — Thou canst bear ; And ''Light, Lord, though it shatter me/ V>as c> er Thy most secret prayer. Shall triumph blind Thee, failure shame. Or suffering turn aside Thine aim? No ; and Love, 6eeing, softly breathes, "Send, Lord, Thy sublimating- flame. "Wrap him in whirlings of while fire — "For aught of Earth a funeral pyre, "But v.ings to bear the glad Soul home "To Thee, Thou All-the-World's Desire." Maesvas.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2861, 13 January 1909, Page 87
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113GOD-SPEED. Otago Witness, Issue 2861, 13 January 1909, Page 87
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