VERSE, OLD AND NEW.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16773, 4 July 1925, Page 9

VERSE, OLD AND NEW.

THE SONG OF THE SEA

The sea is ever calling, is ever calling me, E’en when angry waves are dashing and the while foam follows free. And then one day we unwed away; but. when the morning came I could not view my well-loved sea, and things were not. the same. Oil, what a blank it seemed to me—but pines that sung a dirge, .So different from the music that came in with the surge. And once again another home, but only hills I see, But. I cun hear the booming, and that is song to me. In childhood’s days 1 saw and loved it. ran its rippling edge along. And gulls and I were happy, where sang tlie blue sea’s song. And maybe in the future. I’ll pass on the shining sea, And have my dreams when ships come home that the sea-song sang to me. —-Airs. Douglas Blair. “EACH MAN MUST CARRY HIS PACK. ’ ’ “As we trudge through tho valleys, or climb o’er tho hills That lie on our life’s varied track. There are bundles for all made of goods and of ills — And each man must carry his pack. “Stern fate litis apportioned—to each is his own— Let him set him to learn the knack; And the lesson that e’en without pith or backbone Each true man must carry his park. “Let him not then complain to his neighbor, and say, ‘Friend! courage and strength do .1 lack,’ * ' • But brace him to march with his load on the way, For each man must carry his pack. “There are many who wander and light play the fool, And some who are careless and slack; But why for their snkes should wo break through the rule 'That each man must carry his pack. “Let him strive to go gladly and up with the dawn, .Strap his burden tight, tight, on his back; For present and past with one voice spur him on, .Shouting, ‘Each man must carry his pack.’ “But, alas and alack for those hopelessly maimed, .Swept frail ’mid life’s spindrift and wrack; May wc all, though our aid be unsought and unclaimed, Help each weak one to carry his pack. ’ ’ —rMnrv M. Cttrchod, in Chambers’s Journ at.