THE POET’S CORNER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9135, 2 May 1908, Page 6

THE POET’S CORNER.

SO MANY JOYS. I®have so mauy joys. One joy, of lovely sights That clown my days defile and dream along my nights: My soul is like a room with mirrors all set round, Where Beauty, once beheld, hath infinite rebound. I have so many joys. One joy, of movement free That makes me sister to the winds and to the sea Oh, verily, my hand hath pleasure all its own ; My foot that presses the turf distinct delight hath known!

I have so mauy joys. One joy, of hearts that speak— That, ere a word can pass, will tell me.what I seek. Such joy there is in being loved, bub vaster joy In loving. These twain joys there’s nothing can destroy

I have so many joys. In yielding homage, one. Such glorious creatures God hath made beneath the sun ! For some of these, and their white faith, and deeds sublime, ’Twas given me to meet as on toward God we climb.

I have so many joys. One, memory linked with hope; For, even as those stars struck out in heaven’s cope, Are shining, still, these thousands years upon the earth, So, all the loves I’ve lost, still shine upon my hearth.

I have so many joys. One joy, of loneliness, And one, unnamed, that hears me whither none may guess. Nay, not myself. For out of self afar I wing; And only know, returning I my joys must sing.

—Edith M. Thoms, In Century Magazine.