THE CITY AND THE STAR.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 192, 19 February 1887, Page 1

THE CITY AND THE STAR.

I aito at ray casement window. And Kissed on tUo flat-lag town ; Men rushed here, auumi-m rushed there, And die btara looked coldly down. 1 sate at my casement window, Aud gazid on th-j a »riit sky ; Siloac iiieir fligntUuoutfb the noiaelosa night, Aud a irain dashed so* earning by. O din of a world too near me ! 0 pc tee of a lite to a tht ! As in viti n I setim 10 hear ye, Tno i oitj , and thou lone star. From the oitv a roar ascending, It tstuuned as it hurried by, While grim ana wild luuvthtor blending, Tlu widow'd, the worldiug'a cry. With the pisslouato sob of sorrow, Ami rho pasaiuu ac hbrie'i lei 1 w,old ; With the fir.-t low w;iil of ti.e infant's breath, Aua me met faint a«h of the old. And the 9t>ir ! Oh, tho stir ! What said it ? j In c*e<i and eaxi^h 1 «-Jio clnmo Tout, ihey eii.g they move m their coiistant < u.r ovu, ' From beginning to end of tiu'C ; O! a Liw. and a cciuraa foreordered ; -Nut v edum, mitOJoi'.* control; And nothing they ki-ow of the lawless woe, 01 ILIO weigac j£ u bur Joawd soul, B.it i« mes^ong t-s b ariug tidings, Tney uost on ttieiv pathway sure : V* ictt sputid never husticg 1 , and fire nevor wa3tiug, For evt-r serene and pare. Tnon I turned from my cftf ement window, And 1 iua> wd foi the pc *i.c Divine ; For tio ciii is nfo with jara ami ati-ife, But tLe way of tut ..tar bo iiiine ! l»'or the <iO.>d ho>-e oni-arth too short is ; Wo drdttui an \ it will not Btay ; Bit hom<-i whore tue drtaai ia more than a drea n ; Yet. oh! ichtar a.vay. — A. G. B.