VARIOUS VERSES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8300, 1 December 1906, Page 3

VARIOUS VERSES.

SOMETIME, SOMEWHERE. ' "Unanswered yet? the prayer your lips have pleaded In agony of heart these many years? Doea falfcb begin to fail? is hope departing? And think you all in vnin those falliDg tears? fciay not the Father hath not heaid your prayer; You shall have your desire aometime, somewhere. •♦Unanswered yet? though when you first presented This one petition at the Father's throne, It seemed you could not wait the time of asking, So urgent was your heart to make it known. Though years have passed since then, do not despair; The Lord will answer you sometime, somewhere. "Unanswered yet? nay, do not say ungranied, - Pernaps your part is not wholly done. The work begun when your first prayer was uttered, And God will finish wha, Ho has begun; If yuu will keep the incense burning there, His glory you sball see sometime,' somewhere. "Unanswered yet? Faith cannot be unanswered; Her feet are firmly, clanted on the rook; Amidst the wildest siorm she stands undaunted, Not quails before the loudest ' thunder-snook, She kouowa Omnipotence has heard her prayer, ■ And ories 'lt shall ba done,' sometime,- somewhere. ' THERE COMES A TIME. There oomes in the brightest day, When olouds seem gathering in the sky. There comes a time when the gayest laugh Will break and end in a weary sigh. There comes a time when the bravest eyes Must fill and gleam through the unshed tears. There oomes a time when the bravest heart Must tremble fceneath oppressing fears.' Then there oomes a time when the olouds are' past, And the sun sbines forth hearts again. And thus through our live? it will ever be, Joy oomeß after grief as after rain. Dorothy M. Mollett. "IM-PHM." heard o' the Da'il as he wauohled through Beach, Wi* <t wife in each oxter, an' ane in his teeth, Whan some ane cried oot: 'Will ye 1 tak' mine tbe morn?' ' He wagged bis tail an' coaket his | horn, j But only said •Im-pbm,' that auld Scotch word 'lm-phm;' Wi' sio a big moothfu' ooulrina say 'Aye.' "Whan I wis a laddie, langsyne at the sohule Themaister aye ca'ed me a rogue an' a fnle. Whan a lang, nebblt word he asked me to spell Quo' I: 'Maiser Quill,' in a kind of awitber, Tll speil ye a word if ye spell me anither, "Im-phni"--tbat anld Scotch word . ««!m phm"-- ye ken it meaps •'Aye.'""