EARLY SPRING.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2125, 20 February 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

EARLY SPRING.

I. Once more the Heavenly Power Makes all things new, And domes the red-plow'd hills With loving blue; The blackbirds have their wills, The throstles too. n. Opens a door in Heaven; From skies of glass Jacob's Udder falls On greening grass; And o cr the mountain walls Young angels pass. 111. Before them fleets the shower, And bunt the buds, And thine the level lands, And flaah the floods ; The stars are from their bands Flung thro 1 the woody. IV. The woods with living airs How softly fann'd, Light airs from where the deep. All down the sand, Is breathing in his sleep, Heard by the land. v. O follow, leaping blood, The season's lure! 0 heart, look down and up Serene, tecure, Warm as the crocus cup, Like snowdrops, pure! VI. Fast, Future, glimpse and fade Thro' some wight smell, A gleam from yonder vale, Some far blue fell, And sympathies, how frail, In sound and smell! vw. Till at the chuckled note, \Thou twinkling bird, The fairy fancies range, And, lightly stirr'd, Ring little bells of change From word to word. vm. For now the Heavenly Power Makes all things' new, And thaws the cold, and fills The flower with dew; The blackbirds have their wills, The poets too,

—Tennyson.

The government of the British Lying-in Hospital in London have dispensed with the service* of Dr Hey wood Smith, whose name figured prominently in the Stead icjmdal,