SONGS OF THE LIGHT.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 130, 26 February 1887, Page 1

SONGS OF THE LIGHT.

From the quickened womb of the primal gloom > he sun lolled binek and bare Till I wuva him a vest for his Ethiop breast, J Of >hn ihread* of my go.dea ha\r ; 0 And when the broad tent of the firmament AroH« on its am bpars, I pencilled me h-ie of its rcmtobless blue, And apangled is round with stars. i painted the fl iwers of the Kden bowers. Ana th-ir leaves of Jiving green, And mine were the dyes in the sinless eyes Of E ten's virgin queen ; And when the fiend's art in the trustful heart Had fasteunn »u mortal sp«11, In the pilvei y sphere of the firßt-born tear To lhe trembling eaith 1 feil. When the vvaveß that burbt o'er a world accuse a Their w »rk of wia'h had aped, And the Ark's lono few, so tried and true. Canto lonh ainonp the acid, With the wo drous q c *ras of my bridal beame, I bade their leno a cetse, A» I wrote on the 10I 1 of the storm'd dark scroll God's covenant of v taco. Like h pall ht rest ou a senseless breast Night's funenii shadow elept— Where °hoptierd s^mls on the Bethlehem pl-i' s Their lonely vigils k<-p'. When I ilained om ei^ -^ight the heralds brlfiht Of Htavriu's 111 1 dcunuuK plan, As tho c rhd'iien tti«t r i«- morn <»r a Saviour born Joy, jo> to the outcn^t man. jffqual favour I show to the lofty and low, Ou the ju-t and w just I descend ; X'en the blind whose van spheres roll in darkne^s aud tear>, Fe?l my >• in-, ihe best saiil of a friei d. Kuy, th« flower of tnw waste by my love is embraced, As the ros- in the gar 'en of kiners ; At the chrysalis bier of th« worm I appear, And lo ! the gay buttei fly's wings. The t esolate Morn, Hk« s c mourner forlorn, Conceals all the p-ide of uer ohnrnis, •Till I bid thd brlgh. hours ehaae the night from her flowers And lean the 5 ouug Day to her arms ; And when the gay rover seeks Eve for hia lover, And sinks to hi r balm v repoß'), J wrap thy dof r nest by the zephyr-fanned wett in ourcains of ambar and rot-e. From my sentinel steep by the night-brooded deep I gaze with unslumbering eye. When eynosuio otar of the m-riner 18 010 teo from out the nky ; Ad>i mnci«-d by me through th - merciless sea, Though bpeti oy vie hurricane's wings. fli" v unp^BHionlt ss dark, lone. w«itenng bark To the fiaven home dr.fely he brings. I wak< n the flavors in their dew-spangled bowers, Thf- hHfl >n ihelr chambers of green. Autl muuntain and plum ylow with beauty agdii), Ab they bj*k in their ma'in^l sheen. Oh. if such ihoxlad worth of my vr<?scnce to e-Wh. Th( imh fitful and fleeting the while. "Vthutglo ie<mu'";jH4'>n ;he nomeof the bleat, KVtiT bright v/ith the Deity'd bimle ? "William Pitt Palmer.