COMMON THINGS.
Give me, dear Lord, thy magic common tilings, Which all can see, which all may share. Sunlight and dewdrops, grass and stars and sea, Nothing unique or new, and nothing rare. Just daisies, knapweed, wind among the thorns ; Some clouds to cross the blue old sky above ; Rain, winter tires, a useful hand, a heart, The common glory of a woman’s love. Then, when my feet no longer tread old paths (Keep them from fouling sweet things anywhere), Wiite one old epitaph in grace lit words : ‘Such things look fairer that he sojourned here ’
C. L. M.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 13, 1 April 1893, Page 301
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99COMMON THINGS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 13, 1 April 1893, Page 301
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