CONTENTMENT.
I nm impervious. I do not need For food, or warmth, or sight of foreign shore. I have enough to meet the hour’s need. For me no winds torment, no breakers roar Of life or death's delight; no demons speed, And beckon me to follow, and no lore Of fairy-craft is mine—no voice to heed. My heart beats steadily. I have not seen Visions that lure, nor found my living’s score Tieset with loves. No agony I know, Nor ecstasy, nor doubt of what has, been. I have not swallowed poison in my wine. I have not bitten on a rotten core. I have not looked on moons that should not shine. Yet, every day, I die a little more. •—Elizabeth L. Brown, in the Modern World.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3830, 9 August 1927, Page 74
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128CONTENTMENT. Otago Witness, Issue 3830, 9 August 1927, Page 74
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