Selected Verse

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18524, 2 January 1932, Page 12

Selected Verse

LOVE’S ANSWER » Time was I deemed that all life’s dreams were vain. Since, as poor candles quench’d by Sorrow’s breath, They had gone out in darkness when grey rain— Walk’d In among them, chill with Winter s Death Or as the stars we yearn to slowly wane ■ Or as a rosebud garden withcreth When Autumn walketli westward: and Grief saith Joy that is past comes never our way again. Lo! ns I mourn’d with bitter unquiet complain— My sad heart fluttering in me like a bird, Finding not that for which my soul was fain — A wither'd rose-leaf iluUcr’d by my pane: Yesterday’s face look’d on me: and 1 heard To-morrow’s footsteps coming up the lane!" .. ~ —Lauehlan MacLcan Matt.

BEAUTY. (To E. Price.; There Is beauty In the heavens, there la beauty here on earth, There Is beauty in a painting, in a sonnet, or a song. Beauty gives a balm to sorrow, beauty gleams in joyous mirth, Beauty charms the happy fancy, dwells in purpose deep and strong. You who sec God’s truth in beauty—seek and find it everywhere With rapture of appraisement carins not whence came the forms— You have found a path to Heaven that will end in no despair; There's a joy and peace within you more real than outward storms. You arc rich beyond all measure in your power to admire — AH about you is your own without the struggle of desire, 0, truly rich, for loving beauty fashions beauty in the soul And beauty is (lie face of Truth and Truth is Life the Gbai. ■—ltavmond E. Jianscn.