"ALWAYS SUNRISE SOMEWHERE."

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 174, 16 October 1886, Page 3

"ALWAYS SUNRISE SOMEWHERE."

There is always sunrise somewhere ! Though the night be round thee drawn, Somewhere still the east is brightening With the rosy flush of dawn. What though near the bat is flitting 1 , And the raven croaks his lay, Somewhere still the sun-bud's greeting Hails the rising; of the day ! Should bereavement's heavy shadow, Pall-like, clothe thy stricken heart, And the veiy stirs above thee Cease their lesson to impart, Think the dear one, whose departure Round thy soul such darkness oast, Somewhere finds the heavenly morning That may rise on thee at last. Gropest thou in failure's valle3*, Sad, disheartened, and dismayed, Lest as in the past thy footsteps May be yet again betrayed ; Fix thine eyes upon the 01 ient, Turn thee from tha sorrow's feast, Till the never- failing sunrise Glorifies the darkened east. Let us lay to heart the comfort In this sweet reflection found, That, however dense our darkness, Somewhere still the world around Dews are glistening, flowers uplifting. Wild buds warbling, as reborn, Lakes and streams and woods and mountains Melting in the kiss of morn 1 i Ne'er was night, however dismal, ! But withdrew its wings of gloom, Ne'er was sorrow, but a day star i Hinted of the morrow's bloom ; Ne'er was woe, but in its bosom Was the seed of hope im pearled ; There is still a sunrise somewhere, Speeding, speeding round the world !