Poets' Corner

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 909, 28 February 1930, Page 14

Poets ' Corner

QUEST (Written for TUB SUN) I shall he fair again, and slim as a young lily, And my light feet shall skim the azure sod; And straight as an arrow, 1 shall make my fairway, And kneel there before the feet of God. And I shall ask meekly of Him, the wise Father, Why the thing I sought for, it ever -teas denied. And He. the wise Father, will answer, “Tliou foolish one. To barter the rapt seeking for one hour’s pride. “For the plucked flower withers, and the lit fire perishes, And the litlic corn of Egypt is garnered for bread; Bui joy is in the seed before the mold ■ enfolds it, And in the locked secret of the day ahead.” HELENA HENDERSON. BOOKS IN DEMAND AT THE AUCKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FICTION “SHEPHERDS IN SACKCLOTH ,” by Sheila Kaye-Smith. “THE RED BRAND,” by Charles A. Seltzer. “THE RUNNERby Ralph Connor. “MOBY DICK,” by Hermann Melville. “BURNING BEAUTY,” by Temple Bailey. “IDOLATERS.” by Dale Collins. ‘"WILLIAM.” by E. H. Young. “VIENNESE MEDLEY,” by E. O’Shaunnessy. NON-FICTION “CANARIES SOMETIMES SING” by F. Lonsdale. “A LAND OF ROMANCE,” by Jean Lang. “KING'S FAVOURITE,” by Philip Gibbs. “BUY A BROOM,” by Eden Phillpotts. “AMERICAN ILLUSION,” by Collinson Owen. “THE FIGHTING AT JUTLAND," by H. IV. Fawcett. “SLAVERY,” by Kathleen Simon. “A DOORKEEPER OF MUSIC” by J. -4. Fuller-Maitland. “THE BOAT,” by Jerome Kern.