FROM A BRAVE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 65, 8 June 1927, Page 14

FROM A BRAVE

I have just finished reading “The Wigwam.” and, needless to say, 1 have enjoyed it very much. I am sitting by the fire writing this letter, and when I close my eyes I can see a huge wigwam with a decorated chief sitting outside it. In the distance there is a huge totem pole, which towers into the blue skies above. Great was my joy when I saw that my list of pennames was highly commended, and I think the winners well honour. —Way of the Wind. PEACE I have found peace in the bright earth And in the sunny sky; By the low voice of summer seas And where streams murmur by. I find it in the quiet tone Of voices that I love; By the flickering of a twilight fire. And in a leafless grove. I find it in the silent flow Of solitary thought; In calm half-meditated dreams, And reasonings self-taught. But seldom have I found such peace As in a soul’s deep joy Of passing onward free from harm Through every day’s employ. If gems we seek we only tire. And lift our hopes too high; The constant flowers that line our Alone can satisfy. —Henry Alford.