SOUNDINGS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 18 August 1909, Page 89

SOUNDINGS.

** Ltttle w« know of the fcwry Sec TIU (H* Mm of Lead asd lon* 8«tr« o» ■ tttSe oi it* mystery, sbew Straage gleuns »f tfco Iftnittes* life b«l«w WKh their *«aading»: tot* b* mine." WHAT OF THE NIGHT, i. "What do the Masses care fox Art? And yet the Artist paints, Or carves, or sings from out his hear* His lofty themes, nor faints. Wk*t do the Masses care for Bight? What do they cue for* Good? Yet is the Seer's one delight, Front out his solitude To send God's living truths. And why - Do % Poet, Prophet so> Nor lie despairing down to die? Because, O Soul; they know. nr. "' They know -that not, one noble thought Is erer v«inly speijt, : Or. turnetb back again uirfnraght With that whereto 'twas sent. With tireless vision piercing keen This outer husk that rings 'The chafing Soul, they well have seen Men thirst for higher things; And when their Dead Sea fruit -they pri?e, And scorn God's gifts divine, It is because their untrained eyes See not His corn and wine. in. On, Man of Beauty— workest thou On canvas, or in stone, I Or plastic word, or bidst us bow To majesties of tone: Speak out the thought that vibrates ther« Deep in Thy moved sonl; Count all Thou aufferest empty air . So Thou but retcn the goal. For only thus the stifling night May pass, glad morrow be: O Thou lone Watcher on the Height, , Hopa- cometh but by Thee. Marstasi.