HOPE.
Somtiraes upon a sunny winter day With shut eyes, in a dream, Wo hear the pipes of spring-; sometimes we ray An autumn is but summer'gone astray; And yet we know tho one shall seem A cheat when 'summer comes, the other ring Untrue to lyrics of authentic spring. ” So'through the evil years we sometimes tried To dream it was not dark, Sometimes "saw hope afar—and knew we lied. Or followed; phantom fihtcs"until they died; But now’ at dawn ... 0 hush! 0 hark I ■; , . We dare, as never yet through all • this while, To look in one another’s eyes, and smile,
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12568, 4 March 1919, Page 7
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102HOPE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 12568, 4 March 1919, Page 7
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