VARIOUS VERSES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7960, 10 February 1906, Page 7

VARIOUS VERSES.

MOVE'S WARNING.—LOVE'S ANSWER. (By Curtis Hidden Page.) THE WARNING. Love mo not—ob! let me save thee. Wilt thou never understand? Pay not back the love I gave thee, Touch not even now my hand. If I take thee, I shall tear thee, Aa the eagle tears the dove; Kill thee, —and in memory wear thee Ever. . . . That is Lore. THE ANSWER, You bid me keep what long ago was given! If love holds dangers that 1 know not of, "Why, I will brave the dangers. . . . What so simple! ... f That is Lova. THK FINEST SONG. (By Robert Barns Wilson.) The finest song, if thou woulds't find, In fair and faultless numbers wiit; Search earth and sky, with open mind, But go not to the books for it. 0, league-drawn drifts of mountain snow. And rooking forest gulfed and lost. Swept by the headlong winds that go Wild- laaping with the driven frost. O, breathing summer lands that keep The harvest fragianoe of past years; Broad meadows lulled in poppy sleep, Deep woodlands weighted with bright tears. The parting mist, the morning sea, The sunrise and the beaming shore; The untranslated minstrelsy Of storm and surge for evetmore. The dazzling rook of palid flame, Which climbs aslant the turquoise deeps; While still the new earth, fieed uf blame, In her own 000 l green shadow sleeps. The hush of propheoy, the blaze Of tempted olouds that burn and fade; The Btnrs—the glow revolving maze— / Each in his lonely orbit stayed. With these, and in these, lives the song; The eong, untouched of pen or speech: Swift visions, rainbow-winged and strong, That fly beyond the spirits reach. Romance and Beauty and Hope brood, Through gloom and glory, still they flit In that life—measured interludeKay, go not to the books for it 1