A SONNET.
[Written on my son's sixth birthday, whenh* had been suffering from ft providentially slight attack of meaalet-j Your Birthday— and the first wherein a mist Has dimmed the Anstrui sunshine of your health! Nature, who loves Australia, -with a wealth Of vigour and lightheartedness has kissed Your childhood, as sho dowered the very schist And droughty rivers of your native land With golden veins and golden-bosomed sand. Since there rich herb and tree might not subsist. God grant your mist be proved a morning haze. Such as refreshes, while it dims the air, Only to yield the noontide clearer rays. When the rack rises into distance rare ! God's goodness oft is veiled from human gaze, And trials oft a hiddon virtue bear. Douglas B. W. Suldeit. November 25th, 1887.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 242, 18 February 1888, Page 8 (Supplement)
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131A SONNET. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 242, 18 February 1888, Page 8 (Supplement)
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