SOUNDINGS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 25 August 1909, Page 86

SOUNDINGS.

: ♦ " | "Little we know of the hoary Se« ' Till the Ken of Lead and Line ■ Salve m » tithe of it* myitery, ihtw Str«ngre eleams of the Bmitle«» life: bel*ir : With their soundings: her* be mine." ARTEMISIA. As one on whom hath i*X?n the subtle gpell Of Master Mage, so moveet Thou. The smiles That curve Thy lip responsive to our -wilea Hold yet * str*ng« a!oofn«ss, and compel Soft wonder; while Thy nqpt ey«a ever dwell On far-off things, «s over misty miles Of plain one looks on purpled mountwnpile», And vrhaib he aeath, besureth none can tell 1 . Go on, sweet Maid, on Thine own way— God-speed! Hew still the quiring cherubim; and inn Heaven keep Thee, still to echo for pur need Her high ethereal strains; until we rise, Ev'n we, the dull of ear, at length to redo The riddle of that starahine in Thine eyes, • >• ICassxas. — "The- man T marry," the maiden cried, as the scorned each willing- stove, "znuefe be a man. of thirty — tall, strong-, handsoraer..rioh ar.d bra-re." — "My iefceal I have nevee met," .the youth of twenty sa'-cL' "Sh« must be youngs of beauty rare, or I shall never wed.' 1 Twenty years after. "I'd like to get married," the same maiden 6aid wheh forty stirome-!-* eh«'d seen; 'T don't mind whether he's eighty-one, or only jusfe eighteen." — "It's time I got married," the clubman leiaarked when he found himself growing oki. "Aavtiqise or youttg, 1 oar« not wh'cb, bo long •§ fche's got the gold."