REST.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 25, 31 August 1886, Page 2

REST.

Rest. rest, oh rest! 'ti* our common cry For wliat on earth caunot come ; Tho prayer of the heart to Oiwl on high, Still strongest when voice is dumb. The yearning cry of the soul in jsiin For what it ha* never known. Of life's sad song the most sad refrain. Sent upwards in soundless tone. Rest from the sorrow that eats the heart; The snake with it* veuomed tooth. The sorrow for love-links rent apart — Oh t bitter untruth of truth. For the wreck of ho|*es once, once our all. That drifts upon memory's tide. That cannot sink in its rise or faff. But on its wan waves must ride. Rest from the jiain left by days mis spent' Of our talents cast away; Of failure through weak, though good intent, That passes as shure-spent spray. Of hasty words that so sharp have stung ; Of bitter words we've said ; Of the times that hearts fond-loved we've wrung. That are now—Ah t with the dead. Rost, rest from this wheel-like round of life, And this duff dead weight of ears. From this wavering, doubting, spirit strife, Which so oft hides in despair. From the treading out ths grapes ol sin With our feet stained red with blood. From day to day sorrow's vat within. All splashed with the crimson flood. It cannot come, and wc need not caff, But 'twill fold us in the grave. When the batlerod wreck of our life, our all. Ha* been sunk beneath time's wave. How blessed should that promise be In the human weary breast - " Come ye, heavy laden, and all ye Who labour, for 1 give rest."