BEfNG BLIND.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11825, 23 November 1901, Page 3 (Supplement)

BEING KLIND.

So many bright-huod hopes are vain! 1 So many yeata doth 'time devour • 1( In fruitless strivings after ga'fn - an ' To serve the I plea*urts''bf v ah'boorf We toil and'^truggle hard to' reach ' Some bright ideal' good; and blind"' »The happiness within ou&reaen'' — ■ >1 i; The rvflek'M .y bf 'being kind« J • a ' j With aspirations .^nre and hi&HJ' ' ' For some jgriifld/jdoble work to do, "; To bless ouV fellows ere' we "die, s ' ,'" We strive with hearts'siticere and trtjej. Ignoble aims' we cannot brook, ""** Our duties we bave well defined ' " Bat 'mid theifclamoar overlook The one most weighty— Vein^; kiricf; " . If backward o'er our lives we case . A glance, we see transfigured there ! Sweet faces~ <r j[*lsia "in that dim past*. | Halo-encircled now, and fatr ; " What is 5 this wonder -working power Which glorified ? ' we ask, and find The secret like tiio scent of flower, So simply sw. et -jast being friud. '■'

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