VERSES OLD AND NEW.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 840, 11 June 1910, Page 9

VERSES OLD AND NEW.

. THE MIDDLE WATCH. In a blue dusk the ship astern Uplifts her slender spars, .With golden lights "that seem to burn Among the silver stars. Like fleets along a cloudy slioro The constellations creep, Like planets on the ocean floor Our silent course we keep. And over the endless plain Out of the -night forlorn Rises a faint refrain, A song of the dnv to be born,— Watch, oh watch, till ye find again Life and the land of morn! •'' From a dim West to a dark East Our lines unwavering head,. 'As if their motion long had ceased And Time itself were dead. .Vainly we watch the deep b.clov, Vainlv the void above; They d'icd a thousand years agoLife and the laud \vc lov». But over the endless plain Out of the night forlorn Eises a faint refrain, A song of the day to be bornWatch, oh watch, till ye 'and again Life and the laud of mornh . —Henry Newbolt, in the "Spectator." AN ,OLD FRENCH "CHANSON. ' If the great King, Henrj Quatre, ■Were to say to me, ' "Thou must part from thy true love, Thon must leave Marie; Paris, my great town so fine, I have given to thee." I would say to Henri Quatre, Boldly, without fear, ''Keep your Paris, your great town, All my heart is here; , More than .to be King of France, Is to kiss my dear." -R. L. Gales, in "The Nation."