MY CREED.

Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 53, 28 February 1879, Page 3

MY CREED.

« I hold that Christian grace abounds Where charity is seen ; thnt when We climb to Heaven 'tis on the rounds Of love to men. I hold all else named piety A B elfish scheme — a vain pretence. Where centre is not, can thero ba Circumference P This I moreover hold, and daro Affirm where'er my rhyme may go : Whatever things be sweet or fair Love makes them so. Whether it be the lullabies That cheer to rest the nestling bird, Or that sweet confidence ot sighs, And blushes withont word. Whether the dazzling and the.flushj Of softly sump tuous garden b owers ; Or by the cabin door, or bush Of ragged flowers. Tis not Uie wide phylactery — Kor stubborn fast, nor stated prayers— That makes us saints. We judge the tree Sy what it bears. And when a man can lire apart 1 From work, on theologio trust, I know the blood absut his heart Is dry as dust. -VIHTTIEB. •Menny a man," remarks Josh Billing s " has reached, the simmit ov fame, and then lookt down into the humble valley he cum from, and longed to bo back agin." . Indenture. — A legal deed : from in, and dens, a tooth— a derivation Bhowing l that it is an instrument by which the law sticks it. teeth pretty sharply into him who has to pay for it.