CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VII, Issue 2, 10 January 1891, Page 19

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editor.—l have had much pleasure in reading your illustrated paper, the. New Zealand Graphic, and anticipate its arrival every week with ranch interest. If you will allow me, I .shall be pleased to contribute. Hoping your paper will always remain a success—l am, yours sincerely, „ Ashburton. Ethel Gates. Dear Ethel,—l am very pleased to welcome you as a new correspondent. As you see, lam publishing your poem this week, for which and your kind letter I tender many thanks. I have plenty of poetry, and we have little room vfor it. Will yon try a short story’—Editor Youth’s Page. REST. Night, with slowest, softest footsteps, Comes in robes of dark arrayed, Evening shadows, dim and silent. Lengthen into one vast shade. Rest, too sad to rest Now evening falls. Gazing far beyond earth’s silence To the splendour born on high, Myriad lights, their radiance flinging, Lighting all the earth and sky. Rest, brighter rest. This eventide. Will my life be one long sadness ? Could I shine a star of love t Add my mite to cheer and brighten , Like those glorious stars above ? Rest, perfect rest, Heaven’s eventide. Ethel.