CORRESPONDENCE.
To the Editor of the"Colonut. Stk,—Bora .of election fancies, alike t<J" friend and foe, I dedicate my verse, ths,y'll find it— APROPOS. On sounding sands I've heard the thundering _. roar Mactly 'gcinst rock bound coast the breakers • \ err, Whilst'the wild drifting hurricane passed o'er Like spirits leagued in some mad revelry. ■ ■ I've listened by the moonlit throbbing wave, While sighed the breeze, a3 swjks a soul to rest, ■ ■ I've thought on Him who 'lone hath power to save Within Whose awns we are for ever blest. We mark the shifting, raging tempestst)l the mind, . . ; And wrath, internal strife the mind engage,- - Friend against friend, by passion Scree made blind, ... \";» None 'scapo the storm, nor-youth nor hoary- -. nge. ~ . ■ -' '.- - "V-.*>>.;- j Yet- comes the time, when all this fleeting i wrath' - .. * --'r-.^:^ Like dark clouds, or ephemera's brief -wajß*&!tJ^j,. When Kfu's" short sun, Einks in its downwit'd*^; patb, ••^■l - Wales to another, and more glorious day. . L B. ,•:■
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Colonist, Volume XXX, Issue 5025, 7 October 1887, Page 3
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157CORRESPONDENCE. Colonist, Volume XXX, Issue 5025, 7 October 1887, Page 3
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