THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
fixer. The day goes fullering toward the tumbled west, Ragged and old and muttering, in Iti.s thought. Of grievous wrongs, and crippled and oppressed. He wears the ruin that the storm has wrought. The prowling wind will never let him
The blinking stats lean out to st'n at him;
Th> „ld man i.s too bitter-blind to see; liis wits are wandering and his eves are dun.
The lulls have opened for Id- going out. Where gaunt trees monk him with grotc sque got >d -1 >ye.s. In a great wind that gathers i,.> a shout And sends him tottering down the angry skies— Cone, with his mumbling and his t itU*red pack,
And none cares whither. . . I will not come hack. - David Morton, in the "Bookman
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1924, Page 2
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130THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1924, Page 2
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