VERSES NEW AND OLD.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 407, 16 January 1909, Page 9

VERSES NEW AND OLD.

AMORIS IHTEGEATIO." In the garden, every moment, mther'd leaves ••. ••". , are trombling down, • . -. • And the sward looks dim and dreary, and; the ': trees are baro or brown, . And, the autumn"flowers are dying, and the birds are sad. and few; ' - And; there's nothing, left unchanged;, except the love I have for you. ■ All .the sky. is void of/colour,"/all. the earth is . • grey and wan; Nature shudders at her own doom, for she shares the doom of Han: ■ And she recks not of tho promiso and the ■ beauty .of the spring— \ Neither, she nor all her children, ever think of ■ such a thing! . Tet they will havo that fair promise, it will come Ho one and all, • ' ' And the self-sanio' trees will blossom, and the •■'.-v : self-same birds will {call;: , , They will call to one another, they will pipe and sing again, \i- ■'■■■' . 'To the hearts of other, womerii. to,the hopes of other men. . But they will not call their old mates, they havo new .ones; every year; , . i; '"For their loves'are .'short and fleeting, and ■ their only homo'is here: '.■/ : . , They know nothing of a future where the souls that onco werd' two - .• Now are wholly one for ever, you in me and I in you. < ■ —Arthur Munby, in the' "Spectator.";■ THE JOLLY COMPANY. The stars, a jolly company, ■ . In envied,/strayingdate-and lonely; And cried upon'their revelry:— "Oh white companionship! Yon only In lovo, in faith unbroken dwell,' . Friends radiant and. inseparable!" light-heart and glad - they seemed.to. me .v,. And merry'comrades [even so : ; 'v,.; ■ God. out of Heaven may laugh to see ' .• The happy crowds and- never. know ' 1 ... That ch his'lone,', obscure distress • . . • Each walketh in' a wilderness]. . x .But I, remembering, pitied well i<\/.And loved, them, who, with/lonely'light, .li'enipty'-infinite spaces'dwell;.;//:;, ,'■/'. 1 . - Disconsolate.' For; all the night-• ; I ; heard :tho'thin: gnat-voices, cry, , . ' ; .... ■. Star to fiiint star,' across the sky. ' ' in the "Westminster Gazette.",.. ',1 A BRIGHT NOVEMBER, v I thoUghtvNovember had bccn cold, and grey, Mo.-jjng with limbs of lead; arid with dull eyes Weeping, exhaling ; Yet lo [ from dawn to dusk, day after day, 1 The time I feared • camo: with the obreath of . '■/ 'May.,.. ; .Clothed in' ; late flowers and :.'crowned with . halcyon 'skies, • . '■ ■ : ; ■ ; : . And like yon sunset kindling as it dies : In a great glory burns itself.away.' .' ■ Even so, O Thou who knowest us and markest, pi ?i n SoH ''s day drops, to its ,wintry night,'. Siiali 'WQ not find thev hour foredeemed tho darkest . Surprise with , unanticipated ' light,And. murmur, in life now-bom from its decav, Bright Death! how could I deem thee cold : and, grey?" ; < ... ~S; Gertrude Ford, in the v"Daily News."

"NOT EVERY FLOWER GROWS IN ANT GARDEN." : I have a garden where the south wind 'blows; tall tiger lilies bloom there'and the rose,. YfPhue and pansies deck.my.garden.close,'.: ' ■ All-heal grows thereand there:'the-myrtle grows. - r -..v:. ... .But, ah! of one • Flower, of the' Sun,' ...' My beds'hold none::.. • , : I have an orchard, an orchard green and fair; ijill many a pear and applo tree stand there, . damson— all beyond-compare—" liipen and redden-in sunuuer air:"" . But, ah!..of-one'"' , ' : . •Fruit, of the, Sun; . . ..My boughs'bf'ar none.' Not in/any. garden springs;. : \- 5i, ever yvb?rd,in":aiiy.:woodland':sings;• " . No hand strike'p.all the, : viol's-golden strings,, ftor .stores.the sheaves of all joy's harvestings. And, ah! of ono •* ' ;. ' Seed of the Sun,- • .• <; My heart holds nono. —Una Artcvcldo Taylor, in the "Westminster • Gazette." - . • ■ WAB.v , 1 ' Troopers riding in the dark, Y "j,: A Click of stirrups, saddle's creak, ' Onward, flying'columris mark.'. V - Westinp sun or dawning streak. ■ y. (Frozen'fingers:.at the girth,': '■ A . 1 .• • Sun-crackea lips drawn back ,in mirth, I Mocking death/and women's worth, . . \■. Dre th,e rifles speak): . ; ' ' . \... Cheerless camp, at break of day, . .>'■ \ 'Horsemen-straggling.o'er the plain,? Y \ Gun-teams sticking, in'.'the clay, \ Hand-wheeled cut in" chilling rain.' ' . iCossabk-posts'and pickets lone, ' nVatching while' tho trumpets "moan/ ' ' And tho horse-guard's endless drone, v ■Count the hours away. Horses saddled 'neath the'moon,. . Blankets rolled Awhile coffee 'boils, ."V . , Rttles plenished 'gainst the'noon, " ; 3ro tho dusty column coils - TWards the hills .where danger, bides getpless. And J'each trooper rides : - - , Ur) the broken, rocky sides, : "■ Winoing as he tqils. , Belciing rifles break the spell, ' Wtistling death' 6 purts o'er tho ground, Waihag bullets,; hurtling' shell, f Shrfllin'g through all keys of sound. ■rogeis numbed.with cold and fear. . . ambling at the' bandolier, Jiyes htrd-sefc. with purpose.clear, searoking rock and mound). - ' ' : . Darkness ends the. scattered:-fight, 1 - Muadrons bivouac in the rain ' > fo ?e h !' while.through the night s ; Beai *ch. ,0 er all .the plain ' - ■ for the dead,' who careless lie tw rccattho P'tyHW sky """; • . , s ® e . s through, all.eternity, / ■ - Might contend with right. •• —Teulon, iu the "Cjlasgow Herald."