Ladies.

Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 45, 3 February 1894, Page 10

Ladies.

CALLING THE ANGELS IN

•We mean to do it : .some -day, some day, We mean to slacken this fevered rush That is wearing our very souls away, And gnn'. to our jaded hearts a hush That is noly enough to let them hear The footsteps of angels drawing near. We mean to do it ; 0 never doubt, When the burden of daytime toil is o’er, We’ll sit and muse while the stars come out As patriarch sat at the open door Of his tent, with a heavenward gazing eye, To watch for the angels passing by. We’ve seen them afar at high noontide, "When fiercely the world’s hot flashings beat, Yet never have bidden them turn aside, And tarry awhile in converse sweet, iNor prayed them to hallow the cheer we spread, To drink of our wine and eat our .bread. We promised our hearts that, when the stress Of life-work reaches the. longed-for close, When the weight that we groan with hinders less, „ , ’ We’ll loosen our thoughts to such repase As banishes care’s distracting din, And then —we will call the angels in. The day we dreamed of comes at length, When tired of every mocking guest, And broken in spirit and shorn of strength, We drop, indeed, at the door of rest ; And wait, and watch, as the days wane on— Hut the angelg we meant to call are gone.