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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18874, 18 February 1933, Page 11 (Supplement)

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TO CLARE. Tell her that When I love her T possess Not beauty merely, or 11s sensitive play Upon her face and limbs: that is her dress, But, ah, how shortly to be put away. Tell her these eyes for beauty should be fain To close, having feasled so upon its prime. That When I love her past all loss or gain, I am in love with Time. She shall not have her fill of me, nor I Of her. Happier and better thus, Tell her I’ll be contented wliyrn we lie With Time consuming us. —R. N. D. Wilson. IT IS THE HOUR OF SUNSET. It is the hour of sunset, The day Is nearly whole. The lords of the horizon Woo tho wonder of the soul. Beauty frees her mysteries In melodies of sight, And walks tho fields of heaven On tho lovely hand of light. Stately sail the galleons No man-made port may hold. To lands of purpled silver Set among a surge of gold. And beyond the furrowed glories Which narrow lo the west. The mighty sires of silence Draw the dying day lo rest. II is Hie hour of sunset. The day has reached his goal, And Ilio lords of the. horizon Wed Ihe wonder of Hie soul. —By O, K. 11. Jacobs, in The Temple ofXlght

A SUMMER FANCY. The poppies in my garden are oups Of an elfin King, The Larkspurs, swaying so lightly, are cliiincs the fairies sing, And (lie gladinia blossoms, pure gold and llamlng red Fell from the clouds at sunset when a lovely day was dead. O’ mignonette and marigold O’ bee and butterfly Shall I find another garden Beyond the star-strewn sky? Jean Mitchell Boyd. WORDS. Plain words, sane words, pleasing to the ear, Sweet words, fleet words, dissipating fear Fair words, rare words, bringing good-will here, Words of every shade and meaning. Pale words, frail words, slender as a vine, Long words, strong words, words that glow and shine, jusl words, trust words, breathing love divine, Words of every shade and meaning. IMav words, gay words, used hy passing I lining, Bosl words, jest words, found in speaeh and song, Oreal words, straight words, overwhelming wrong, Words of every shade and meaning. —Grenville Klclscr.