BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 675, 27 November 1909, Page 9

BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

VERSES . OLD AND NEW. THE GLASS HOUSE. Once I built a palace, Far from any. land, ■ ' ' For from any , shipway; . "I'was most grim and, grand.-.:■: .-: ' Glass I had-for sunlight, ■ Coloured glass for blinds, : '' Glass to garner sunshiny . 'Gainst tho wintry winds. i: : -'.Twas most,:grim: and quiot; ~ , : '. 'I'was most grand-and free; : Sky-blue glass or star-blue;. Glass and sky and sea. , ' ; ■ ■'■■.. Gone! "all gone for over.!. Wander, homeless man! . Came,that.';crooked: serpent,: Came I.oviathan— . ••• ■ , Smashed my pleasure-palace, , Whirled in flashing foam, *. Split in stars of'crystal, : i .' . :: . .Floor- and j walls and dome! ■' —E. 11. Visiak in the "Daily News." THE CALL. ' 1 hear tho Little Peopio's feet as in and. out ; ■ 'Among * purple hoatlier-liolls, among the -'■£ -■ ; ; ' J maorland' grass; ,', - i/V '" ~ '. • ;l hear -them -.tripping thrcf * : ho fera that a golden by the way, -* \'And, oh! with all the little Folk I long to roam to-day. , , v ■'■ Tho fairy comcs ns tno 'twere.blown to mo, '■? , It calls, and calls, and calls again,- and will not let mo be; , <• ' j'} -' :.Yot - heTe' my lover '.pleads with me .to fix; tho bridal day, ' . But fain's my heart for fairy-song 3. adown tho fairy-way. ' ,:: :. , : I seo tho Little Peoples .hands that beckon. -v-V"' :that's -waving white like.many . a.drifted star; •. . . ■ V ..My kinsfolk . look across 1 tho moor, ns but. . the mist, they say, . ■ ~ But then. they never heard the song that's • calling mo.away. ■ V-.-' ■"■■v.: 1 hear tho Little Peoples feet out in the still •'■^v.'si'-:^:night-tide, • 'And, oh 1 full well my wild heart knows I'll bo no mortal's'bride,. . _ ■ . jor. outi across 'the''moorland s edge..;the call -' ,• comes down 'to me,.;.':' And '.;.':'And I 'mtfst. join the fairy-folk—they., will not let mo ho. ' —Augusta m tno ■" Glasgow Herald." ;. .. i. 1 . . ... :.: -.' < \ SIMPLICITT. f - I am ta followor of - Jesus -.Christ . - To whom a lily of.tho field sufficed Jtoro'than the glory and. gold;of ,ono. v:';,;. Who; ruled-.beneath ..the namo .'.of. Solomon. •• .. '■ , I hftvc thn ; heart"tq.-he:,a .little child,' ■ .:. 1 And play among .the grasses-growing wild, •.. ' Gathering,.'gathering bright - littlo .flowers. --, v . llcn aro too.,subtle ■; and they waste their ; " , ';pbwers.'{: ; . : !i^';; : >rt^■: ' \ ■ For; life;is::simplo toi.the violets, .-. - ; :^,Daisiestaud'":buttercupsi.that;:Spring begets'■ • .With - warmth":of; siinand- rain on . big - broad earth. Thero is a deep; content, more "deep mirth, Or-cavil of words, or;tears, or questionings, ; " -In tho slow hirth; .and living of . green things. ..'. I :have a mind to bo moro. sijnplo than ; : The !.twis(^d;;: : racked>,':i}luSiohrf;(mindvof -inant ";;vl:-'4-;Chnst^oiked:'the':earth, i !ani; iii' v his,'heart' a : ' rose, 'And in his ojes caltA. stars that watchcd : the .v':-':-:; ;-;' -; .'' ,- l Of enibroiled -and cunning;' Aid -lie Sfep't., Ho gathered to Him all whom life had swept : - Kearer, to earth—women who sold :their soiled, Poor .'bodies, publicans, .and men, who toiled . ; . •. By night, upon the 'Lake, of Galilee, Fishing and. awed. Ho would havo taken me, , I think,' for I. havo. lain,"with buried head, ■ Sideways, among long- havo.-.said, .- -' buttercups:that sway beneath .the breeze," , And form my. solo horizon, even these " ' • •Small violets and bright -daisies are more wise ... 'Than upright meu:,:who.cheat themselves with 'lies'r \ .v*:y- ; Of good and evil Christ's' feet were weary of the . earth ho ' Jlary,. with, ointments Judas -would havo '/];■''■->' hawked, ;- Bathed theni, and Wiped, them on. her falling hair , ' 0 Mary Magdalene,'the'deed fair'.''t'" ' - ,£,°-hasmv; heart in its great weariness, ''- ' .4ound balm and -comfort/ ; ; tI 1 . S. Flint,.in tho "Nation."