THE POET’S CORNER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9068, 7 February 1908, Page 6

THE POET’S CORNER.

THE LEPER. Hear the leper! Down the street Sound hie shuffling, weary feet. Run within! Little children, do not look; Hide your eyes behind your book; For his face is scarred and thin, Lined by sin. Hear the leper ! Shut the door; Double lock the gate once mure. Do not peep Round the curtain’s lifted side ; If he sees you, wo betide. For that dreadful face will creep Through your sleep. ’Ware the leper Who can know That he loves these children so— That he slip-* Through the hated market-place Just to watch a baby’s face And the ,ioys its mother sips From its lips? EARL JUNKER. In the ‘ ‘ Century. ’ ’