INFIRMITY.
What is the truth to believe. What is the right to be done? Caught in the webs I weave, I halt from sun to sun. Tho bright wind flows along, CHlm Nature's streaming law, And its stroke is soft and strong As a leopard's velvet paw. Frt'O of the doubting mind, Full of the olden power, Ar« the tr<-o and the bee, and the wind, And the wren and the brave mayflower. Man was the last to appear, A glow at the close of day ; Slow clambering now in fear He gropes his slackened way. All the uc-thrust is gone, Force that came from of old, Up through the fish and the swan, And the sea king's mighty mould. The youth of tho world is fled, There are omens in the sky, Spheres that are chilled and dead, And the close of an age is nigh. The time is too short to grieve, Or to choose, for the end is one ; And what is the truth to believe, And what is the right to be done %
Walter Reynolds is on the way to 'Frisco from New York. He has with him a number of English and continental pieces which he intends to adapt.
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Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 77, 22 November 1884, Page 5
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204INFIRMITY. Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 77, 22 November 1884, Page 5
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