RESURGAM.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 84, 10 January 1885, Page 7

RESURGAM.

The sun was bithul in th>- heaving sea, The wa in H'«' M* i n • • And tiirie ram Jr. ii) uiit .lie luuniony Thre.' voiiv^ '.ittuiu-d as one ; Wit), p!ai»ti\.- i 1 "!"• Ilt>l tn 4 1<)l11 Oi t'>e ce.ie.itti.' <»1 flu nn* t<» If, In tue \\.me <>f Iho u-ar, t!ir MHihut gold. And thu ei)b of the Mibbing soa. The fitful wind to liri. k r 'in i Heft Prlivored the y .1'- s?<«'«l bye, Thy east grow •.<!!•. groy, bereft Ut the du> th.it nm-.t -ur'Jy die; The sands ja\ l>an- sis the him sank down (The sun th t l»uik'd the year), And the old w<-rid uepl in its funeral gown A> the night pall dwpod the bier. With sombre grandeur roared the deep, In its dank and hollow ciive*, And I heard a world oi! voices weep Behind the swirling waves ; Weep for departing life and light, For hope and love beside, That had died with the year and were buried that night Beneath the ebbing tide. O « O O O O 0

Chained in the silent caves of death A genius lies in tlmill, The life of life, the breath of breath, The rnyster) veiled fn.'in all, Shaping from ashes with mystic tool, And a subtle alchemy, Beng which proves that mighty rule Which brings the best to be. And it is with the mouldering hearts of men Aft it is with the grosser mould, New hope, love, lif , -hall be .shapen again, - From the heie, an<i de,id, and old, Like the be.intiiul brightened fai-y thing From the deathly dirybalis, So from the decay of the heart shall spring A sweet re-genesis.

And tell me ye whom life hath taught Is loss not ever gain, Is the la«t not bet>t, tho' it 3 coining be fniugnt With long and silent pain, Ere gleams the golch n fruit, the bloom Must tall to the enrtli and die. More welcome the light when the earthy gloom Has passed away for aye. hi 4 hi. Paeroa, Ohinemuri.