ONLY SOMETIMES.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 387, 24 July 1889, Page 8

ONLY SOMETIMES.

'Tis only sometimes that we linger At the clopg of a busy day, To think of the bounty and promise Of the years that arc fur nway, When the in eat woi Id stretched before us As .1 field so fair and wide, Wheie love might be hud for the seeking, AVith never a prayer denied, And success was the one tiling certain To all who strove theii best— Lite's noon shall be full of pleasure, And its evening peace and rest. And only sometimes do we ponder On memories sadder still, Of hearts once wnimly glowing That in death lie calm and chill, Of lo\e we deemed immortal And abovo all meaner things, Till a silence fell on its jnusic ' And the earth stum soiled its wings. Bur 'tis only sometimesth.it we hear it — The voice of our buried past — As the wail of a sonowful bpiiit 0 ver f oe;s too frail to last. But these are memories only And the harvest day by day "Calls us to plan and to labour, And foices our dreams away. And the golden noon is fairer Thanthe misty morning hours; We have truth instead of a shadow ■And fruit in the place oH iiow'is,. And when through the twilight st'llnoss We 'hear those lingci ing chimes, Let us think — " It is well to remember The Past and its sorrow sometimes."