THE FIRESIDE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 223, 16 August 1884, Page 2

THE FIRESIDE.

A Soliloquy. (Masonic Review.) If, sitting with this little worn out shoe And scarlet stocking lying on my knee, I knew the little feet had pattered through The pearl-set gates, that He f twixt__ '•'•'• Heaven "and -me, ' ; "••"- ' ■'' I could be reconciled, and happy /too, And look with glad eyes ' toward the Jasper Sea. ... . ,- If m the morning when the song of i birds (Reminds n^e of a rnOsici faf more * sweet, *"'-■•• -■-'* v 1 listen for its pretty broken words, And for ; the music of his dimpled .feet , r ■ 1 I could be almost happy, though I Heard No answer and saw bat hip vacant -„ j seat. ' "■ " " "■ I iould be glad, if when the day is done, And al) its cares and heart-ache lfdd , \ away, I bould look. westward to the hidden i BUQ '- -■'■>. :■■-. -v -;.\ *f jf\«And with a heart full of sweet yearn<X | ings say: r p ;\. " -night lam bearer to w>y* little one : By ; just the travel of one, earthly day." ( If I could know those little feet were' I shod •' '''■' > >\ In sandals, wrought of -light m better lands, s.i "■•■ ". '\* '.• --„',"- \ ..v 1 And that the foot-prints of a tender God • . 'VV Ban side by side with his, m golden ■■•-. , Bflffflti £*-:£>. '*:2iSKM I cpuld bow cheerfully and kiss the rod, .;■"{ Since darling, ~#m, jitfywiSef, safer ; hands. w " If he were'dead^l would notßHitoidaJf. . -And stain with tears the wee sock on ■"-,■■ ■ my'kriee; : ' ; : ;- : '" ;: ; ;(:;f^ " JC:: v■•u ■• 1 would not kiss the tiny shoe and say : " Bring back again my little boy to mcl" /. ;I1 'i,y ;; ' ;'T I would be patient, knowing 'twas God's - ' Way,, ■-;;;.; n>.>.i>-.-r- : ST V Although I must not all the wisdom i! ■ see: l; " : ' v " ■■- ••->;...••.■■-•:■) v . .: 'But 6 ! to know the feet once pare and '* white, '■* '■'"•"•■ The haunts of voice had boldly yen- . tured m! The hands that should have [battled for the right, Have beep, wrung crimson,inr the clasp/ of sin'j And should he • knock at Heaven's gate to.-night, _--■- To fear my boy could hardly enter an. A