POETRY
•KNOW THYSELF." Let each man laarn to know himse f To gain that knowledge let him lab jur. Imp'c ve those failings in himself Which La condemns so in his neighbour. " Example sheda a genial ray Of light. whLh men are apt to borrow; So first improve yourself to-day, And then improve your friend tomoir;w. THE OLD LOVE. ' Oh! jcu may praise the eld love, Bat I will praise the new; Tde snow that hid the violet has purged it sweeter bias, And sj it is with love tctirid, end the sorrows it wme through.
Yet when yoa praise the new love Give faith unto the old ; A tale complete ia summer is a story I lightly told, But love that ripened through the years, ia the harvest is all gold. And you shall h-va the two loves: The love without alloy, Whea you were just a dreaming maid and I an untried boy, But never was love victor till grief and doubt had fixed its joy. So baek unto cur first love's Eternal Paradise! Where we shall wa'.ch the world fadw out asd heaven about us rise; E'en now, Love! jou are wonderful, with God's glory in your eyes,
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 391, 5 November 1903, Page 2
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