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•PolSed and swathed -from the storm, .dormant 'the .germ of bsauty md fragrance doth lie. Though weary and -went -be tjhe damn. It houseth SthV spirit n^n 'to 'ihe -stars «nd the sky. ' - ,' Ah. *n«! . When in' springtide the earth Is like to .the leaf that doth welcome the breeze «nd >ihe 'ruin' ' , ' "Wb >can feel -as 'jt were, -deep " within. ;«la,, .the ,old jalanet'e pleasure and pain. , The fir©" of 'dieth -clow, ' '- i >l ' Ahl fitfully . '^will rburn As Jong ms this .{tired heart doth -glowTi}l J to .dust teturn; Not then! 'Kbt then will '.fervour fada ■ - That I have 'felt iox ; Though I am sileift .'in lihis -gl«.3e, , ' "Beneafli ; tlii9 nob"l« tree. ' N - .1 -"Ijover O ILove' ther /struggle is ilongf .stud "earthly but arccaps iof song, And '.marred. -by 'Ota; mortal 'weakness, 'Lift '.118 iaway 4rom -tße .drosp -and Arab, •£i inspire »a - Seqper trust ' ' "£et grarft -us tihy^ Bpladt of . , . 'Gtrant^us io-rfeear- fbe .iiaily' 'Toafl , , ' n That .we nnay .leave s» smoother joai. , , IPot those, who may follow a'ftor. v Graaiii, O igrant Jby ihis -gloomy 'way £Sonic swee^t .fore ta ale of 'the *full«T day,, "Its Ihealthier .teaTs .and 'laugliter'.—Chablxi >Oacn. Suuuxa.'Kaikouxa.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 78
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198LEAVES. Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 78
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