THE SOU'-WESTER.

Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 18 August 1909, Page 85

THE SOU'- WESTER.

Heard in the sombre hills

Like the n>oa.n of a desolate sea, The wind goeth forth with the shower that chills, And the white flake wandereth fre«.

Heard 'neafch the desolate height, Like the groans of Prometheus -hained to

the flints of the crag : The sleft-ladeu winds are abroad in the night With fury, ah! blacker by far than the

wings of a s-toim-baffled shag. Heard like the moan of a ghost When the waif of g moon sinkelh down in the desolate west, When the greyness of morn stealeth over the

dark waters, tossed About the dim land like the victim of awful unrest.

But hu?hed when the splendour of snow Is lit from the bafe to the summit, a whiteness subliTne ! Ye storm-wind^ of winter, though burdened

with blackness and woe, Ye fill with your vigour the sons of this temperate clime.

Free on the forested hills.

Free on <th« floor of the limitless sea. The wind go&th forth with the shower that

chills, And the white flake wandeieth free. — Charles Oscar Palmer,

— "Willie," said that young man's mother, "y° u were very restless in church." "Yes," was the penitent response. "You never see papa behaving in that way. Why couldn't you be quiet like him?" "Well, mamma," he answered frankly, "you &2?, I wasn't a bit sleepy."