Select Poetry.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 16, 22 April 1867, Page 91

Select Poetry.

: SELF. .vY ; 3FT-is,-easy, enough toconqner the -world, • cb To heat "down each cowardly elf: “ .-Would,- God I cpuldvahflmshihalf as soon : ' The devil within myself I ' : - ■ For the world, whenyouface it, soon gives in, And plays hut a poor,'mean part, " But whoever; yet could measure the strength; Of his own had wayward heart ? Ay! *tis easy to seem externally good, - >lt iseasy to hear the head high, ; ' But where should we be if the soul of each • - Were baredto the cold world’s' eye? Where should we be it the minds of all. Gould be read in the tell-tale face—- ; If the thoughts we think, the sins we dream, . - Were told. in the market-place? >t We should never forgefrthb lesson true That our blessed Saviour taught. When the woman “caught in the very act” 1 Was tohim for judgment bought; How, mourning within for their hard hard hearts And the sinner’s fearful lot* ~' He, sighing; stooped and wrote oh the ground, As though he heard them not,How He said “Let him without sin of you First cast at her a stone ”; —: And convicting themselves, the accusers all ' Left Him and the woman alone. “Doth no man condemn thee?” “No man,Lord,” And'the trembling wretch wept sore. “Neither do I,” said the merciful one; “Go thou, and sin ho inore.”

O.friend of mine! whoever thou art, . No more in darkness live; Thy brother’s sins, thy sister's faults. Pity—forget—forgive. Perchance when the Judge who judgeth all ; Shall hear thy tearful plea, :. . The thought of those thou hast forgiven May help to pardon thee. Ah me! when at night 1 kneel and pray Por strength ’gainst unseen foes, For courage thie-to bear me through . This, state of trials and woes— To God, to save me from drink and hell. And from the love of pe]tf,— I feel that by far the worst of all-foes- • Is the devil within myself I —Alliance News.., , F. Dabijng.