HOUSE DESTROYED

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 260, 24 January 1928, Page 13

HOUSE DESTROYED

EARLY MORNING FIRE When a five-roomed house in Thomas Head, Mangere, caught on fbte early yesterday morning, * the occupants, Mrs. L. Hill, her niece and nephew, were forced to escape hurriedly. Mr. Hill was away* from home at the time of the outbreak. The building, a wooden structure, was ; soon a mass of flames. There was no tim© to move any of the furniture or personal effects, and everyr thing was lost. In spite of the’ efforts of willing neighbours, the house was soon burned to the ground. QUESTIONINGS. [Written tor The Sea.] The blind worm spoke to Saint Francis From the mould of. Assisi’s wood.* "What thinkest thou, Brother, Shall be the reward of the good And virtuous worms When Death shall bar the w ay? A richer loam With softer, sweeter clay? Wo stone to turn the path? And never bird to &11 the day With fear, when rain shall break In silver brightness on the lawn And worms are tempted Past their power, to rise? Would you, Saint Francis, say . That such is Paradise?” And a bird dipped From blue to bough: "Thinkest thou . That in the Ptradisal Lands Peaches will grow That will be birds’ alone? And cherries in cool leaSness? And never snow Will hide from our fond eyes The Eternal lawn Whose long, lush worms will rise E’en as the appetite doth rise ■Within the bird?—Thinkest thou This, Brother?” "My Little Ones,” Saint Francis said, "What can mortal know, Save that Desire will be fulfilled. Or that Desire will go? He that created worm and bird Would surely make it so. 'Tis only here below. That thirsts unquenched go.’ IDA WITHE D uvauchelles.