RESURRECTION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11359, 10 April 1915, Page 3

RESURRECTION.

(By ALFRED NOTES.)

Onco mora I hear the everlacting sea Breathing beneath the rnountaiii'B fragrant breast, "Coine unto Mo, come nnto And I will giro 'you rest." Wo have destroyed the temple, *ad in t&roo days Ho hath rebuilt it-—all things are mad# new; And. hark, what wild throats pour his pxaiee Beneath tie boundless blue. We plucked down all His altars, not to make Tie email praise greater, but the groat praise ie«s, We eeaied all fountains irlaew the ecu! could tsiake Its thirst and vresrinesa. "Love'-' was too smell, too human to be fom:d In that, trnnseerdeni scarce trihenc# lore •was born; We ?d 01' " toives "; heaven was crownea With philosophic thorn. "Vonr God is in your image/' we cried, bnt O. "JV»i only mnn'<« own dsepest hears ye gave. ILiiOTniis; iVitit li? tfuu y© fczsow, While wp—it® dup His grove. Denied Him even the crown on ora- otto brow, _ , K'rsi fhe?e poor symbols ci His jostier rficn, , .v'.ied'lTis tempi* -wrifk flic du«t. ana no*, He is risen. He i* risen again. "Hi' i« dead." vr* cried, and even *rr.id that ploom The wintry veil *sf rent. Toe aerr-born dav , , Showed us the Ansel seated in the tomb And tlie stone roll-.'d away. Tf S.= !l;e hour! We ohnl I .Pnp( k heaven above Xow', to denr onr slight epaemeral breath, Jor, ftngnifh. ai.d fhic evorlnstin" lore Whie.'a triumph? over dcr.th.