IN LOFTIER VEIN

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4382, 6 March 1909, Page 1

IN LOFTIER VEIN

WHAT I’D BE If I were anything at all, ’cept what I am, you know, I think I’d be a bit of cloud far up in the summer sky; I’d send down rainy lasses when the flowers grew parched and dry* And help to weave the ribbons fojj the wonderful rainbow. I’d drop a gentle shadow when the big sun grew too hot, The children in the poddocks would , be glad I was about. I’d be kind and cool, and sweet all all day, and when the stars came out

I’d sleep with one to watch me, Ijke a great for-get-me-not.— Rachel Dee Brownlowe*

LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS ' “ Saint Augustine, well hast thou said That of our vices we may frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.” —Longfellow from “ The Ladder of St. Augustine.”

In the awful mystery .of human life it is a consolation , sometimes to believe that our mistakes, perhaps even our sms, are permitted to be instruments of our education for immortality.k —Anon.