LOWLY GALILEAN.
The vestiges of myriad lives before, The rudiments of nobler lives to be; "We wait » while on this terrestrial shore, Toil-worn, but trustfully. We may not foresee the to-morrow, We may not remember the past, But Lov« groweth up of our toil and our Borrow To triumph ecstatic at last. Shall lowly progenitors share In the passion -and pride of the race When, greed hath departed, andr gloom and despair, And Christ sitteth crowned in His place?, Lowly Galilean, Greatest earth hath known,' Mon after son Yearneth *or her own. Ah! He whose 'vital touch hath vivified, Who doth, unseen throughout creation move, Upon the Cross of Calvary yearned and died To crown His work with Love. Inscrutable, O Awiul Majesty, are all Thy waya. We may not rightly understand, Or give Thee fitting praise; For ' sin and want and death For ever mar the blessedness of life, And- from our first dawn to our latest brcatk la. suffering, care, and. strife. O noble Kazarenei The greatest earth hath known, All that upon her weary breast hath, been, Tnou takest for Thine own. — Charles Oscar Palmer. Kaikoura.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2817, 4 March 1908, Page 71
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189LOWLY GALILEAN. Otago Witness, Issue 2817, 4 March 1908, Page 71
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