A FLOWER BESIDE THE

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 163, 31 July 1886, Page 3

A FLOWER BESIDE THE

While tindginir on with tired I'cct Aeioss <i nothcin plain, I paused to rest beside u creek In weaiiness and p-un. Around the scene looked die.v and will! Beneath a sky <>C giey, But at my feet a daihy smiled — A tluwer beside the \\ .13 . It «=enined to «.fiy, " Take courage: now. For lovti»«4, ht'.nts and tint*, VVliile d. ij^ies bloom and violets blow, \\ ill btill jvnuMuber _><>v." I io.=e and walked with lighter heuit .Arid li^htci bkpi away, That l.mnblc flower I'nlGiled its pail And theeicd me on the way. How often on the *ea of lifo-, Whf-n eioufh hang- daik overheat], And ldomiri^ hi»h in stormy stiifc Lie breakers just ahead. We sliiinkini> cower upon the deck, [ Bi'uumbed with icy npiay. A kindly shipmate says, " Cheer up," A flower beside the way. Such little crumbs of kindness fill A void in eveiy heart, And no one knows and none can tell The joy that they impart. Kind wucls and looks, and loving smiles Exchanged from day to day — Tlit^e aic the sunshine ol : our lives, The floweih bebide the way.

Noah \yas an ark-ilcct. A host in himself — The inn-keeper Waste of Time — The middle of the hour-glass. When a man sees double, it is evidence that his glasses are too strong for kirn. APrinter's Toast.—" The Press "— it ex-presses truth, re- pi esses errors, impresses knowledge, and oppesses none. There are 2003 newspaper published in Great Britain— v growth from 551 ift 18-iG. Four hundred and nine papers [ are pudlished in London alone. 5,000,000,000 cubic yards of dust, weighing 6000,000,000 tons, ejected during the late eruption.