CORAL.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1759, 22 August 1874, Page 3

CORAL.

Deep in the endless nig^it '■ The dense thick darkness of the, lower Be*, Upwards toward the lijrhfc i The tiny-workers'toil on Steadily. 1 ' '- Slowly the white tree grows y ! Until tho waters take a lighter blue, Kachrlittle'lalfourerjthrowi'r ; ;> ; ,CK> 'i^ ri:.t. cl 1 Hit life into the work he has \o ,do» > „ Vi 'n Amid the branches fair s Float bright-finn'd waricl'rers of tho tropic ': • .drep,,. i? . .-.j-.Ti.t -,-,-,,- .. „-,.. ■As throiigh our thinner air :•■ ■ : '-.*■■; i And network of the cloudi tho swift-birds ! sweep. jAnd beauty giToa their home The crimson stars of sea-anemones, Till through the branches foam ' The angry lathings of the surface teas. There gather day by day \ The waste things of the Ocean, till they form An isle amid the epray '? A fairy-land of refuga from the jtorm. \ ; ■ ; <;■ -i >:"■ \) -\ ° ■;.;■; ':?. a- r-. ■-■:.'.. Ah! feeble henrts of men, i These weak ?tbinga/ of the world pr«ach : Hope and Faith JHopeinTtM'certam fend,ii\ ■■'- X ■ '■:■') i-- r V>\ ; And Faith that triumphs o'er tte fact «f r Dsath. fop ward, toward the" prizei I Strong, kindly acted, thoughts achiore tho • ■ c^ow'ri^-*- •■»■•"'■'•■'■' :■'■"■ '---'■ \ jdnseen by mortal eyes ; They win for us Q-od't smile of blesiing •| down. But ho who progress cnves, ; Must past through all the iu/moil and the ■ strife v JThe din of liuman vravas ; That beat the louder on the higher life. Through darkness and unrest \ Rising upon the grares. of jerror^pis^ Until his eyes are blest ' With "fullness of. the perfect day" at last.