BY THE FLARE OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11756, 21 July 1916, Page 5

BY THE FLARE OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS.

In the frozen, silent Arctic, Where tho Great Cold rules in might. Where the day i.s ice-blue whiteness From the snow fields' blinding light. "Where the night is frozen stillness, And the cold stars twinkle and gleam, And the frosty skies are lurid With the .Northern lights astream ; Violet, blue and yellow. Copper and rose—they glow, Flickering, ghostly and flaring. Silent they come and go. Weird, and dim, and haunting, They gleam on tho ire-packed range. Till tile gaunt ice crags and ledges ■Flare, and colour, and change. There, in that endless silence. At rest--for evermore. There sleep" a hand of the Vanguard Who trailed to the Northern shore. They sleep through the frozen darkness ; Tho stars are overhead, And the streamers flame- in the heavens. Sapphire, copper and red. No earthly care shall harm them, Thev =h;ill rest while iho world ;irows 'old. For their Guarlian Spirit, watches: The pitiless Northorn Cold. A t rOP t—with the stars shore them. Tn the silent, long, lon« nights, We'll leave them to the glorv And the thro of tho Northern lights. —From " T : 'dr-s of Commerce." by William Gary Sanger, jtm.

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