Verse-Old & New

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17911, 15 October 1932, Page 13

Verse-Old & New

1 A Wail of the Weather. , When y,ou go for a trip It rioiiinienees to drip. Isn’t the weather atrocious! At the sight of the rain •j It is hard to refrain | A feeling of fury ferocious. . When the clay turns out wet j Everyone feels upset ! Oh. doesn’t it spoil your excursion And you gloomily tramp Up arid down in the damp ' in that there is not much diversion. (Those in mackintosh clad I Are, may he, not so bad, i The elements they are defying, | But those who are cl rest i In their holiday best ' Bind weather of this sort m,ost trying. j On the sea if you go In a boat for a row, When below there is no place for shelter; j It is hard, I am told, i An umbrella to hold 1 In your teeth when it comes on a pelter. Then it can’t be denied ( it were wise to abide : Af home by the .fireside cosy, I With vour pipe and your books, You will find that, life looks ! So much more “couleur de’ rosy.’? i —From “Lyrics of Love and 1 Laughter, ’ ’ by G. D. Lynch. .hie The Maker of Roads. ■Said Youth: : U’ -J were a maker of Roads — On the hill-tops they would lie, Open to the clear blue sky. Where the great wild winds sweep by,. Straight and free! An open road!—where .1 could tread With swinging step and lifted head And heart that’s true! A straight road, too, so that the end ( Was never hid by tiresome bend From ardent view! f j Ski id Age: | If I were a maker of Roads — j.A vale would be a place for these, A winding road, ’uenth slmdy trees, j The scent .of hay upon the breeze j From, neighboring leas, i A shaded road, with many a seat, j Where age could rest his weary feel. And body, too! 'A winding road —for it’s too clear : To weary age the end is near (Though not in view!” - —D. A. Similes, I in the Woman’s Magazine. ■' A, Poet’s Vision. I He toiled for daily bread. His soiled | hands ! Bare witness to his toil. Vet, un- | I defiled | The poet’s send within him. hearkenI iiig, heard, (Not the harsh noises of the .market- | place j Wherein men barter body, mind, and | soid, For pallry pence, ' But, from the dusty eouider-land.. through open door, (And high above the clamor of the< j street, The mystic music of a lovely land, j Sun-kissed, and bearing evermore 1 The soft, sweet murmur of a singing I sea, (And harpers ‘harping cm a song-filled. I .shore. < —Gilbert Rue, | in Chambers ’ .Toiinml, ! Twelve British vessels are engaged in the Kara. Sea expedition, on which’. 28 I vessels, the other 16 being of German, .Russian, Norwegian, and Estonian own wI ship, are carrying 20,000 tons of cargo, including machinery for Siberia, and will 'bring back about 30,000 standards of timber, furs, and other products, some of which have been brought '2OOO miles down the rivers Yenisei and Ob. SMake your cows healthy by using Sykes’s Drench. 1/G packet, 17/- doz.*