POETRY
DON'T GIVE UP, If you've tried and not won, Never stop for crying; All that's great and good is done, Just by patient trying'. If by easy work you beat, Who the more will prize you? Gaining Tictory from defeat— That's the test that tries you! —Phoebe Caby. MOTHER. I wish I had said more. So long, so long About your simple tasks I watched you, dear. I knew you craved the words you did not hear;
I knew your spirit, brave and chaste and strong, Was wistful that it might not do the wrong; And all ks wistfulncss and all its fear Were in vour eyes whenever I was near, And yet you always went your way with song. Oh, prodigal of smiles for other eyes, I led my life. At last there came a day When with some careless praise I turned away From what you fashioned for a sweet surprise. And now it is too late for me to pour My vase of myrrh. Would God I had said more ! —' Saturday Evening Post.'
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 440, 18 August 1904, Page 2
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177POETRY Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 440, 18 August 1904, Page 2
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