SOUNDINGS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2862, 20 January 1909, Page 90

SOUNDINGS.

" Little we know of the hoary S«a Till the Men of Lead and Line Solve us a tithe of its myitery, their Strange gleams of the limitleig life below With their aoundings : here be mine." IBANT OBSCURI. Farewell ! We go, we go we scarce know where ; ; Farewell ! We £now not what our fate in store, I , Save that, dear Friends, and city passing J fair, ! We never look upon your faoes more — We look not on your faces ever more ; j Farewell — farewell ! Farewell ! Our life, it hath not been so sweet That we shall soon forget when the Sun shined : ; And ye — ah, ye have bathed our bleeding feet, j And bent upon us looks exceeding kind — j Healing, heart-warminj? looks exceeding: kind : Farewell — f areweTl ! I Farewell ! Your images upon our hearts I We bear with U6 across the stormy strait ; I O let your prayers, from this sad hour | that parts, At eve, at morn, besiege the golden gate— For us, afar, besiege the golden gate: Farewell — farewell ! Maestas. — A ro-vrend gentleman was addressing a Sunday school cla<-s, and was trying to j cnfoice the doctrine that when people* | hfair* ucie --infill they needed regulating. I Taking- out his watch and holding it up, ' ho said: "Now, here is my watoh ; bupposj ' it doesn't keep good time- now goes too f.'ist, and now too slow — what shall I do ' with it?" '"Sell it," prompt 1\ replied a i boy. . I < — " You have represented Cupid with a revolver," said an editor to his black and J white artist. "Isn't it euMomarv to arm ' i the god of lo\e with a bow and arrow s?" — • | "It has been the custom," replied ihe ! artist; "but even art must keep up with | the times." j — "The human monstrosity!" said a .\oung lady attending a fair with her fiance. "Threepence. Wouldn't you like to have a look at that, Herbert?"— " Xo, dear,"' answered Herbert, anxious to bes*o»v ' a neat compliment, " I am quite content ' to look at you."