Poets’ Corner

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 749, 23 August 1929, Page 14

Poets’ Corner

THE OLD MAN (Written for THE SUN) His white lips move, lohisperinty, My time is short, I would be gone , O Lord, Lord! note let thy servant depart! I am left alone , an old man with thin hands and a dry heart sitting in the sun. I am grown sadder than the gust that shakes dead leaves in May. lonelier than the sea that breaks her heart in spray; • now, O Lord , ere another morrow wakes, 1 would away. For the spring returning moves not as before this dolorous clay, love is forgotten, a bright cloak I wore and cast away; the stars are dumb, the heavens resound no more in this dark day; lam old , lam old: thine ancient peace restore, O Lord, I pray! A. R. D. FAIRBURN, Auckland. BOOKS IN DEMAND AT THE AUCKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY NON-FICTION “AN AMBASSADOR OF PEACE," by Viscount D'Abernon. "THE RISE OF THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD ,” by Count CortU ‘‘CHARLES DARWIN,” by Henshaw Ward. “MY WAR MEMOIRS,” by Dr. Eduard Bcnes. “MORE FAMOUS TRIALS," by the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Birkenhead. “TURKEY TODAY,” by Grace Ellison. "GREAT THINGS AND SMALL,” by Sir Edwin Ray Lankester. “THE IRISH DRAMA” by A. E. Malone. FICTION ‘‘BRETHERTONby W. F. Morris. “TORN TAPESTRY," by Mona Gordon. “TEMPLE TOWER.” by Sapper. “THE GOLDEN ARROW." by Mary Webb. “FISHMONGER’S FIDDLE ,” by A. E. Coppard. ’■FORBIDDEN DOORS,” by Constance Savery. “FOLLOW ELIZABETH,” by D. Conyers. “THE WOUNDED NAME,” by D. K. Broster. “SHOW BOAT,” by Edna Ferber. "KENILWORTH,” by Sir Walter Scott,