HOPE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11669, 8 April 1916, Page 8

HOPE.

Belov'd, I dream that you are here again, That all the past and* all the useless pain is gone, That only God and our two hearts axe here, " And He gives peace now that His will is done. "Who knows, as yet, in what unnumbered lives We live to meet a^ain: Until the wheel of time and sin this gives, That memory of each other should endure From life to life. That in the long dark days of the world, ; While I am here, and you gone on the next adventurous way As now, memory mav stay in your heart as it is in mine. And that your heart should rest content to wait what way^ Be in God's hand: not in rain and shine Go seeking for the perfect mate, But be content to wait 1 Till God finds me again. t And memory sp-rinsing in our hearts Back through the lives shall carry our belief To the primordial days When- from a speck we crept And sinned, and went our separate ways As punishment. On to the time when as one glorious whole Life, shall unfold before us all its scroll And in our unity once more We know ourselves forgiven And life complete. "* E.C.W.. in the "Westminster Ga- ' zette."-. . \ - Jfu«. L.