BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1557, 28 September 1912, Page 9

BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

VERSES OLD AND NEW, ' , ANGELS. " When life is difficult; I dream Of hoW' tha angels dance in heaven 1 Of how, t;u angels dance and sing In gardens of eternal spring, Because their, sins have been for- , < ' given .' . And never more for them shall be The terrors of mortality! When life is difficult I dream .Of how tho angels dance in heaven , » , Olive Custance. \ . . THE ETEKNAI, ALLEGOKY. . .;' Careless, wo venture the young l ways of life, , ' 'Casting away the vestments of the post; Unarmom-ed,-wo.: press out into the strife, Our horns of challenge, echo down the .blast.' ' With valiant feet-and questing eyes we ' fare Into the dewy dawn before the sun. _ We have put by, the burdens of despair, The new untried horizons we have won Beckon with vague allurement; and we seek; (Our hands unshackled, full of life's new, gifts) . Crowned freedom on her ultimate lone '. peak— Our songs go up to her; the shadow lifts. . JThen stars are darkened in the midnight sky: We fall,, as in the forest falls a leaf. Over us ride the:legions where we lie, The tempests and the thunderstorms of grief. - And shuddering down tho old unhappy slope, The old blind pathways that our fathers ; trod, • , \ With all the burden of our fear and hope, • Life flings us broken at tho feet of God. ../ .Ethel Talbot.