FRIENDLY COUNSEL
DEVOTION. One word is too often profaned. For me to profane it; One feeling too falsely disdain’d For thee to disdain it; One hope is too like despair For prudence to smother ; And pity from thee more dear Than that from another. I can give not what men call love: But wilt thou accept not ■ The worship the heart lifts above And the heavens reject not, The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ? P. B. SHELLEY. What is our duty here? To- tend From good to- better —thence to best, Grateful to drink life’s cup—then bend Unmurmuring to our bpd of rest; To pluck the flowers that round'us blow, Scattering our fragrance as we go. • SIR JONN BOWRING.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1929, Page 1
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138FRIENDLY COUNSEL Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1929, Page 1
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