THE CUP OF LIFE.
M. MONSTEDT.
The cup of Life with joy and woe Is filled, and from its solemn flow Ar.) hopes and fears. Omnipotence here bade us stay, Ordained our fate, and on our way Placed smiles and tears. When woo our hearts in hours of gloom Fills, we aie blind to pleasure's bloom, Joy sings in vain ; In vain to heal the bleeding wound Is music's soft a id soothing sound And sweetest strain. But when the show of grief is past Joy beams on the pad heart at last With smiles divineKind deds'are openirg for its rays, Through them its happiness displays— And blessings shine. If joy bestrewed our path alone. And nothing else but pleasure shone Upon our way. Then, we should keenly wish to dwell On earth, when Death's resistless knell Call-* us away. Or if our few brief days or years Were covered o'er with unmixed tear 3, Midst wail and groan ; If naught remained but dark despair, Then death would lcavo no being here To grieve and moan. Let come what may, come storm or calm, While from hope's fountain flows chis balm— That storms pass o or — Lot us, in hope s great power, away Beyond the woes we meet to-day In triumph soar.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, 3 December 1887, Page 3
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213THE CUP OF LIFE. Te Aroha News, Volume V, 3 December 1887, Page 3
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