"WILD OATS."
What are you to weigh the shadow That has cross'd thy feeble sun? You, that baiter'd all thy sunshine Ere thy day had scarce begun! What <a.r3 you to curse high heaven In the harvest of thy woe? You that never smil'd on heaven When she smil'd on you below! Lcok not on <hat wither'd blossom— It shall never bloom again; For 'twas Love, you pluck'd it harshly— Now you know thyself its pain; For you long for love denied thee, And you nurse all love's desire, But you've squar.der'd all the spirit That might onoe have claim'd some fire. Look thee on the past and present, Counting down the. days ye knew; Fool thou .art to look for blessing— ■ Blessings are . but for the true! From the seed that you have scatter'd Gather in your ciop of sighs; Sown in woe, to woe it ripens—. Woe shall be you paradise! —Phcenix.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2934, 8 June 1910, Page 90
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154"WILD OATS." Otago Witness, Issue 2934, 8 June 1910, Page 90
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