BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 864, 9 July 1910, Page 11

BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

VERSES OLD AND NEW. REINCARNATION. Nascentes morimnr, finisquo ab oTigino pennet. . ; 0 when from other eyes than mine ■ Btrarige. transports of my heart. shall shine, And when from other lips than these My Self shall speak new ecstasies, My Self new-housed, in alien flesh ' Reborn, to gather up afresh The threads on life's eternal loom— If I should miss thee then, for whom 1 yearned so—if thy new disguise

Were left unravelled by my; eyes, And thou shouldst pass, with 110 wcll-

. met 1 From me—Dear, if I should forget . That You—l should have lived again Through intervening vain! But if, despite the Clay disguised, Tho Immortal Part were recognised, And each, to each unerring flown, Should meet and clasp his own, her own, Onco more—tho all the toil and stress, The waiting and the bitterness, Of old goodbyes, would vanish quite - Before tho splendour of our light; And through the self-same country,

.changed No wit, where once we roamed. and

ranged. . We Two would go 'neath dappled skies, laughing to hear the old replies* .- To the old questions, so. content, So joygd, to say with head low bent, "Ah! that was what you saicl,. you

know, „ 'A thousand thousand years ago —"E.C.T.," in the "Westminster Gazette."