WHY.
Why do we heap huge mounds of years lictoie us and behind. And scorn the little days that pa-s Like angels on the wind I Each turning round, a small, uweut face As beautiful as near .' Becau-e it is so small a face We will not see it cliar. We will not clasp it as it flies-, And kiss its lips and brow ; We will not bathe our we<«ry souls In its delicious now. And so it turns from us and goi s Avv.iy in sad disdtin , Though we would give our lives for it, It i, ever comes again. — D. M. Mulloch, in the Adcocntt
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 8, 24 June 1898, Page 9
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107WHY. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 8, 24 June 1898, Page 9
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