Verse-Old & New

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17607, 24 October 1931, Page 13

Verse-Old & New

; Treasure. -« •' I’ve.'.a. mansion grand and stately It js 4j}l(jd .treasures rare; : Kugs from thp Persian markets/ , I Books from an Eastern fair; • Pictures old and famous Drawn by a master hand/" 1 Bow upon row of treasured books That take me to distant'lands.. j But as I sit at evening J Alone in the' window seat, I would give my gold and treasures old For the patter of little feet. ■' —F.A.H. To the Late Thos. Hardy: Poet. ! Oh, Hardy, Hardy, shall we never see .. thee more, ■ „ A host of anguished hearts' doth for thee weep: For the wound shall 'never, never bo so sore, ' - Although thy memory wo" shall always keep. The rivers, brooks, and streams for thee.do long,. Thou, the qniy friend they ever had, : ~ 1 Thou, who ne’er did do them any - , wr 9Hg, ~ , , They, who made thee so gav, so . fikul . ; _ : '/ ' The flesh is dead, the soul lives on, * j ■ ,F 01 ', that great apd colossal mind • To. its eternal rest, has gone, . h /The rest ,wjiich.it for ever pined. One and all lie loved his fellow-men, | God gave him grace to write, ; As always l with untiring peri He wrote ‘of ‘earth' and light. ; /V ,'\ , ■ —D. Mi Scott, Gisborne. . V* Go to a Tree. When you grow weary of the boast of . pien., ... ~/.. Go to a tree, my friend—one that has stood Long, patient years within a silent wood. ‘ Beneath- its branches 'you will fin'd , again I A thing long lost. Trees are content to ; be " As God created them. Ho bough | that turns Its golden thoughts to autumn ever yearns k) ; Beyond a immortality.

Go to a tree in silence. You will find In the of bud .and leaf Serpnit'y beypnij’the voich, op grief, And faith above* the reach 'pf.puman- ;, u ,. Vi Man spends his noisy days in search Of gain Wnpe; trees find God in sunlight, •soil'and rain, y| . s /-‘ —Anderson M. -Scruggs, in ihe Chrisfjag, Century. To England. 0 mighty soul of England, rise in splendor Out of the wrack and turmoil of the night, And as of old, compassionate and tender, •Uphold the cause of justice and of right. Thine was the consecration and devotion, , ■ , The world-wide vision and the worlcj-wide trust, •.... ... , ( ,v. t . Which npjd’e'a pathway of the 'tides of oceaV.' a,, , And ,fpitful gardens of 'the deficit dl 4y;iau •»:••* -1 the davH Thine was the call to face with daurttbojtfing j/, , . .) . All all adversity, Until Giy' sops t ; h,cir ye^i^tl,Q.^s,darin J?,V V' '' .Mk,,r n-vmu ' oa • Had girdled earth with realrhs from sea tpjisqa. , ~ ~. .. j

Had girdled earth with'realms from sea tppSQa. . . \ n , - Now in this age when out of cruel N p,- o PP rCHsion ’ The hearts of men are yearning for • release, .. , 0 Soul of England—England’s great .possession— ...... Lead thou, mankind into the why of peace.' ’ . u . —Frederick George Scott, Quebec. . To One who Overlooks My Faults. I' helat'd ithsaidvthtvh Love had lost its , ’ ....' v .v» • ad And could not judge aright. Nothing.could be .more. falsel! Lovo - ,is : 'not blin,d,'.. But. only very kind— J?qr, pn. occagibjU, .1 ..have seen him place . T v His hands before his face, And turn fl a\vay, in utmost charity, From''what.fie Svyufcl not sppl v .. . -feara.'.Hcndei'apn Hay, in the Ohulrchman. ,: f To a Father I Know, lie didn’t whine when things went wrong, - , lie, tried to meet it with a' song, Sonietimes.' a pq.oy .liajlf-hcai'tcd ltijid, : But. stjH it cased his troubled mind, {t-cringe or whine .of'sptj, .| Biif .slugged, along and held his job. i He gave his kids tho best ho could, Ho earned them home and clothes and food, He set no dazzling heights to climb, No headlines in, the bojok of time, And •yet’his household honored ? luih, Anil loved to serve his lpnd|y- whim. His boys eame home to talk with Dad, They told him all the .-plans they had; His girls no liner pal could meet, Them whispered confidence,tft greet, He gave them faith and hope and good, The richness of his fatherhood. What finer thing could life bestow, Or mortal ask, than, just to know, That wp, ,lpl earned the hard-won light,' . nr,: ... Of daily striving to do right. And that ,our own so loved and dear, Were happy just to nave us near, fL— r-4 Aii instance of how.the unemployment. position affects young women ui Auckland is given by Mrs. von Bturmcr, ono of the Government nominees of the Auckland Women’s Unemployment Committee. ~ A vacancy for a maid in the city brought 99 applications, .sho states,, including many, from oliit girls of all the pending secondary Softools of Auckland.', Tho successful applicant was a secondary schoolgirl, who had gjybn 'thorough .satisfaction. -NEW (RHEUMATIC' REMEDY. Notable success in the treatment of chronic rheumatism and kindred siilments ' with Tiodine Cognet ’ has brought this new remedy to the eyes of the medical profession. It is a French preparation which scientifically combines 1 iodine, sulphur, and thiosinumine. Tiodine Cygnet is obtaiiVhb 1 o‘ln"No:Zeh 1 and from leading chemists, or direct frym the.Tlodino Co., Box 12, Te Arp l ’;Wefjlingtpn r at"C/6," postage free.* ' j