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New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 98, 13 March 1875, Page 10

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rw^M S ith S q.ual foot strikes wide the do* Of royal halls and hovels of the poor. Like crowded forest trees we stand, And^ some are marked to fall; The axe will smite at G-od's command, And soon shall smite us all. as fclie W-fcreo ever-green, With its new foliage on, The gay, the thoughtless I have seen ; I passed, and they were gone. Read, yet that urn, the solemn truth, With which J charge my page : A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. No present health can health ensure Pop yet an hour to come, No medicine, though it often cure, Can always balk the tomb. He lives, who lives to God alone, And all are dead beside ; Por other source than God is none, Whence life can be supplied. To live to God is to requite His love as best we may ; To make His precepts our delight, His promises our stay. _ __^_ Cowpee.