Poets9 Corner

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 665, 17 May 1929, Page 14

Poets 9 Corner

WHAT 'THE FOOL 'THOUGHT (Written for THE SUN) Shall 1 die like the grass, shall I pass Like the fioioer that is blown? Shall 1 drift with the leaves, like the sheaves r That ungarnered are strown ? Shall I mix with the rust and the dust All forgotten, unknown? For it s*ems —said The Fool—those were dreams Of a God on a throne.

In the -first cosmic plan there was Man (So they say). He arose Newly horn when that earliest morn Lit the first polar snows. Am I one said The Fool—with the sun? Do I die like the rose? Am I somebody's guest, or a jest? Ah, there’s nobody knows. For the Heaven of God’s love floats above, Yet it sweeps out below. Many a star that we think shines afar Perished aeons ago, Yet its light presses on through the night. Still undimmed, see, it glows, And its Why and its Whence don't make sense, And there’s none of us knows.

So I think, if I may, I will pray To a, God with more poise Than the one ivlio can scatter a sun And fill space with, his toys; A creature more kind, and whose mind Has a homelier note — Some Pan who can smile like a man Through the eyes of a goat.

By paths old as Time will I climb Up the hills that he takes, And laugh like a child at the wild Sudden music he makes. And perhaps, when I'm dead, overhead I shall hear, as they pass, The beat of his queer little feet In the innocent grass. A. GLADYS KERNOT. Rome. BOOKS IN DEMAND AT THE AUCKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FICTION ‘DARKENED ROOMS,” by Sir Philip Gibbs. ‘‘ANNA MARPLOTT,” by F. Reynolds. ” DODSWORTH .” by Sinclair Lewis ‘‘PAYING GUESTS,” by E. F. Benson. “THE YOUNGEST ONE” by K. Ha ?; Hand-Taylor. *'UNDINE,” by Olive Schreiner. “THE DARK MILE” by D. K j Broster. “AN INDIAN DAY” by E. Thompson. “ENTER SIR JOHN” by Clemencc Dane and Helen Simpson. (Continued in next column.)

“MAMBA'S DAUGHTERS” by Du Bose Hayward. NON-FICTION “THE MAGIC ISLAND by W. B. SeabrooJc. “MANUAL OF GARDENING IN NEW ZEALAND ,” by David Tannoclc. “OFF THE DEEP END” by Christopher Morley. “SOME PEOPLE” by Harold Nicholson. “FIFTY YEARS IN A CHANGING WORLD ” by Sir Valentine Chirol. “ART OF THE NIGHT” by G. J. Nathan. “THE LETTERS OF KATHARINE MANSFIELD .” “MODERN ASTRONOMY ” by 11. MacPhcrson. “SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN ” by 11. Sullivan. “FOLK SONGS OF ENGLAND ,” by Cecil J. Sharp.