THE HEART’S DESIRE
FLOWERS OF THE FIELD. llehold, 0 man! that toilsome pains dost take. The flow’rs, the fields, and all that pleasant growes— How they themselves doe thine onsample make; While, nothing envious, nature them forth throwes Out of her fruitful lap; how, no man knowes, They spring, they bud, they blossome fresh and faire, And deck the world with their rich pompous showes; Yet no man for them taketh paines or care, .Yet no man to them can his carcfull pains compare. —Spenser. * * * * Our duty down here is to do, not to know : Live though life were earnest, and life will he so. -5f * * * We should often he ashamed of our best actions if the world were witness :>f the motives that produced them. Roche fa canid.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1930, Page 1
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129THE HEART’S DESIRE Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1930, Page 1
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