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Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17613, 18 January 1929, Page 10

! The Blasphemer . J :|| By Eliot Kays Stone. j|j| ■I I have lived my life id vain, 111 For I scorned the common- im 111 place— 111 l !■'. Saw no glory in a face. X II Smiling on a bed of pain. |||| Trembling hands at simple tasks, I Toiling for a bit of bread— ||| )>] Haughtily I filing my head— till << There is more that spirit 1 lsks -" 111 Faint I heard the broken hats Of the toilers’ ready mirth; ... While my feet tripped on the mi earth, iV HI I was lost among the stars. j|j |!i] What a poor, blind fool was I. |! Thinking life a blasphemy. ||| y ( Life is living, now I see; fll] I would live who am to die. |

WEEP IVO nfJORE. mmffl]* . Weep no more, n. . ->.gn nor groan, Sorrow calls no Lime .that's gone: Violets plucked, the sweetest: rain Makes not fresh nor grow again. Trim thy locks, look cheerfully; Fate’s hid ends eyes cannot see. Joys. as winged dreams fly fast, Wliy should sadness longer last? Grief is but a wound to woe; Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no more ’ v - —-John Fletcher.