Sun and Shadow

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 May 1915, Page 3

Sun and Shadow

"As J look from the isle, o'er its billows of green, T« the billows of loam crested blue, I'on tai'k, tiiat alar in the distance is seen, Half dreaming, my eyes will pursue; Now dark in tlie shadow, tike scatters tlie spray. As chaff in the stoke of the flail; Now white as the seagull she flies on her way, The sun gleaming bright on her sail. Yet her pilot is thinking of dangers to ahum, Of breakers that whiten and roar; flow little he cares, if in shadow or sun Xheyi see him who gaze from the shorel He looks to the beacon that looms from the reef, The rock that is under hia lee, As he drifts on the blast, like a windwMted leaf, O'er the gulls of the desolate sea. Thhs drifting afar to the dim vaulted cares, Where Iffe and its ventures are laid, lon dreamers who gaze while we battle the waves May see 'us in sunshine or shade. Yet true to our course, though the shadows grow dark, We'll trim our broad sail as before, And stand by the rudder that governs the bank, Is or ask how we look from the shore. Oliver Wendell Holmes.