THEY SAY WE CHANGE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 962, 12 March 1917, Page 6

THEY SAY WE CHANGE.

Thcy say we change, wo men that conic out here. Hut do they know how great that change? And do they know how darkly strange Arose those deep tidal waves that 101 l Within the currents of the soul, Down in the very founts of life, Out here? How can they know it?- Mother, sister, wile, Friends, comrades, whoso else is dear, Jlow can they know?- Yet haply, half in fear, Seeing a long-time absent face once more. Something they note which was not there before, —Perchance, a certain habit of the eye. Perchance, an alter'd accent in the speech Showing he is not what he was of yore. Such little, curious signs they note. Vet each Doth in its little, nameless way Some portion of the truth betray. Such tokens do not lie! The change is there; the change is true! And so, what wonder, if the outward viewDo to the eye of Love unroll Some hint of a transformed soul? Some hint; for even l.ove dare peep No further in that troubled deep; And things there be too stein and dark To live in any outward mark; The things that they alone can tell, lake Dante, who have walk'd in hell. —R A. WODEHOUSE, 2nd Lieut. Scots Guards, in the "Fortnightly Review."