ROYALTY.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 211, 16 July 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

ROYALTY.

Out from tho dust ot ages, Out from the week, ot years, ' Fi online? the v. ork ot saves, Fiontmg the waste of tears, Kaditint, swift, immortal. K.ivth flings tl.c soul ot man, Ami shuts the radiant portal That hides creation's plan. Ileve, with the Rate behind him, Heroin the nai row path. . Fronting the huns that blind him, Fronting the w indb of wrath, Mini, witfchhhcad upSntcd, Man, w ith hirf hair outblown, Virile and '•trong and gifted, Builds for himself a throne. Say that the grave is wailing, Say that the bhroud is white, S.n that the strength ot hating Ow neth no \ letoi's nu r r nt. Earth, from the cycles oldun, 110 ds for the life coinpltU-, Blossoms, and s>uniitrhi golden, lied lips and kistts awect. Whose arc the chains that fetter I Whose are the swords that bile Masters, and yet no better Than men who brave the light. Km th hath no royal races, Ciowns. yea, and swords must break, When in the hidden faces Jjcath finds the hearts that quake. Why fear the pnin that passes? Lo, birds will alwa>s sing; Ye.i, and the vernal grasses , Wake -with each waking spring ; Vnd fiom the silent sleeping Strong grow the weai y c\ es. Ei e comes the upward sweeping Far through the distant skies. Fronting the years tha* lengthen Likp some recurring clurn Souls in life's combat strengthen, " Conquering death and pain; Battling in God-like fashion Through waj s that none have trod, Ki--e they, by noble pt^sion, Up to the heights of God. FnoMAS S. Coi-ui:«. in "Overland