BOOKS AND AUTHORS.
-. 1 VERSES OLD AND NEW. , ' ' ."G. M., 1828-1900.": Forty years bnok, when muoh hud place , That since has perished onl of mind, ( I hoard that voice and saw that face. - \ Hβ spoke a 9 one afoot will wind, *, 'A morning horn ere men awako j . flis note was trenchant, smart, but kma. Ee was of thoco whose words can shako And riddle to tho very core Tho falsities that time will break. Of late, when wo two met once inoro, The luminous countenance ,antl eyo ' Shone just as forty years before.- , So that when now all tonguos declare . \ Ho is unseen by his green hill, I scarco believe ho sits not there No matter, farther and farther still, . ; Through the world's vaporous, vitiate air, "" ' His words wing on as strong words win. -Thomas Hardy in tho'London "Times." A LAKE. L Bilent and' still the fir-trees stand . On every mountain slope; , How motionless the silver lake " Clear as the face of Hope! Tho errant clouds spread wide their wings Across unmeasured aky; Tho aspons whisper secret things „ k To breezes' fluttering by. ■ •- - To-morrow, euro, my heart shall be Firm as the hills, and strong! ' , To-day I'll sit with Memory, And hear her low-toned song. i \ — Enth Toung in "The Philanthropist'."
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 562, 17 July 1909, Page 9
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212BOOKS AND AUTHORS. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 562, 17 July 1909, Page 9
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