VERSES OLD AND NEW

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 693, 18 December 1909, Page 9

VERSES OLD AND NEW

THE SONG OF THE DEAD CALL SOULS' NIGHT. NOVEMBER 2)._ Eternal Light shines on us, but no would seo again , The qmet darkness falling on the twilight homes oi men, Eternal day is ours, but where the hoarthfires burn. ' ' For a httlo space' of earthy-grey dusk once more we would loturn. Eternal joy is round us, but -ne iiould tread once moio j. ho fields whero sheop are folded and tho barn threshing-floor; xor wing-beats of great angels wo would hear tho herdsman's call, And hoar tho oxen homing with their heavy soft footfall. And we would stay a little while beside tho ashes,' glow, Within tho silent, silent house, until the red cocks crow, And in tho slumbering human homo unbroken silenco keep. Nor fiet ono thought of thoso who sleep, as no were wont to sleep. Aβ shadows amid shadows wo would watch tho hour-glass, And at the daun no ear shall catch, the sound of souls that pass; And silent as the shadows, as dreams in a lost night, Wo shall go henco returning to tho endlua. ondless Light. , —Una Artevelde Taylor, in the "Westminster Gazette."