THE BEAUTIFUL BULBS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14285, 30 April 1917, Page 7

THE BEAUTIFUL BULBS.

" "The Bulbs have done it once again. "They never despair, The blessed little gre-eai noses have smelt ;their way up q,£aln out of the sileinoe of the hidden earth. They are poking through everyyjyhere. ..'•'They have had no wars at all down below ; " and they • want very muoh to know whether the horrid war i s over. T!hey cannot believe that it ea«j still Be at its deadly work. But, even if it is, they are not going U> give m. "The Spring is still the Spring. And •it 1 still hangs out all its greqn banners, J and; waves . abroad^ all its gaiUajit shows, ' and shouts, aad sings, with all' its lusty throats. | .. '.'For there is a secret of- joy m rthe heart of Mother Earth which cannot be gainsaid. She means to laugh again, Rome day, as merrily asi ever? gibe has been through this business before. She has seen at lot of it m her day. And always she came out on the far side, with her ancient store of gladness tuaexhausted, with her youth undimmed. . "The. horror will pass, like a wintry" storm. The srun will shine again : and all the merry-hearted things that dance m the sunlight will renew their primal freshness. Lambs will leap ■ birds y ill -jargcxn : buds will open: flowers vfill bloom. "And, m itheir undaunted joy, our poor, torn, worn> bruised and aching hearts will receive something of their hope, and dream again of happy days m the glow and glory of Peace. 'V^Henry goott Holland, m the Commonwealth.