LIFE’S DAILY ROUND.
THE LAST ROSE.
In my Autumn garden 1 was fain To mourn among my scattered roses j Alas for that last rosebud which uncloses To Autumn’s' languid sun and rain When all the world its on the wane! Which has not felt the sweet restraint of June, Nor heard the nightingale in tune.
’Broad-faced asters by my garden walk, You are but coarse compared with
roses ; More choice, more dear than rosebud which uncloses, Faint-secented, pinched, upon its stock That least and last, which cold winds balk ;
A rose it is though least and last of all,
A rose to me though at the fall. —O. Rossetti
A CHALLENGE.
Gird on thy sword, 0 man, thy strength endure \ In fair desire thine earth-born joy renew. Live thou the life beneath the waking sun, Till Beauty, Truth, and Love in thee are One.
—Robert Bridges
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1930, Page 1
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147LIFE’S DAILY ROUND. Hokitika Guardian, 10 May 1930, Page 1
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