LEARNING.
Child ! if thou wouldst with truth and honour live (Better, without, that thou shouldst cease to be,) Thy first best years, thy first fresh efforts, give To learning ; all beside is vanity.
Learn, while the glorious sun in heav’n rides high, And nature groans beneath his fervid scars ; Learn, when the silver moonlight Hoods the sky Like veil of Artemis on clouds ami stars.
Learn, ever leain, while yet thy youth is fair, When womanhood is lovely in its strength, When age, like frost, lies lightly on thy hair, And when thy journey’s end is near at length
Learn I and thy sheaves of gathered learning bear To brighter regions ; thither shalt thou come With songs of triumph ; learning even there, Amid the gladness of the Harvest Home. Margaret Thomas.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 50, 12 December 1891, Page 690
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131LEARNING. New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 50, 12 December 1891, Page 690
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