SUNSET.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 25, 21 June 1890, Page 7

SUNSET.

(By Mary Rowles Jarvis.) M ITH splendour of farewell the sun goes down : The far pavilions of the dying day Are hung with gold anil marvellous array, Revealing in their depths so radiant grown, A light as of the rainbow round the throne ; Hut while on our horizon, lone and gray, rhe long, reluctant glory dies away. On other shores the light of day is sown ror noontide harvest—this sweet afterglow .A 8 B,,nr * Bo promise otherwhere appears. ’’ herefore, O heart, rejoice ! life’s setting sun, mi '*” se slow departing but as death we know. Make’s heaven's high dawning—where, with blinding tears M e whisper ‘ Ended,’ angels write ‘ Begun !’