NIGHT AND A STAR.
Fast bound I sat, the tbiall of inward gloom ; Heard the great tidal rhythm of Life and Law, Unheeding ; and without emotion saw The flowerlike world’s immortal tint and bloom. And a voice echoed through my soui’s dark room : * O helpless on fate’s torrent as a straw ! To strive—to fail—to feed oblivion’s maw — Such, and no more, thy work and wage and doom 1’ Then, from some height beyond these dusks and dews, Methought a sphery whisper fluttered down : • To suffer and in silence build thy days. To knit life firm and earn thine own soul’s praise— Such, if thou wilt (for power is thine to choose). Such, and so great, thy task and meed and crown.' W. Watson.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XII, Issue XII, 24 March 1894, Page 270
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123NIGHT AND A STAR. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XII, Issue XII, 24 March 1894, Page 270
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