VARIOUS VERSES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8318, 22 December 1906, Page 3

VARIOUS VERSES.

INVISIBLE. * Is there beyond our range of narrow sight, Afar in some remote and endless space, A subtle influence which none may trace? ! Beyond imagination's aerial height, Is there a mystic wave of wondrous light— A revelation of the love and graceThat seems to have no human 'dwelling place, Yet near to every soul that gropes in night? If so, its sweet perfection lives in thee, This emanation of ethereal birth, That frees the gloom that binds me like a girth; j To knit and fold thy spirit's purity In chains invisible alone to me — The help and comiort that I need on earth! —lsidore G. Asche;\ SIXTY AND SIX. ' Light of the morning, Darling of dawning, Blithe little, lithe little daughtar s of mine, While with thee ranging Sure I'm exchanging Sixty of my years, for six years like thine. Wings caiTnot vie with thee, Lightly.l fly with thee, I ■Gay as the thistledown over the lea; Life is all magic, Comic or tragic, , Played as thou playest it daily with me. " Floating and ringing, Thy merry singing Comes when the light comes, like that of the birds, List to the play of it! That is the way of it! .All's in the*music • and not in the wordsGlad or grief-laden, Schubert or Haydn, Ballard of Erin or merry Scotch lay, Like an evangel Some baby angel, Brought from sky nursery stealing away. Surely I know it, Artist or poet Guesses my treasures of jubilant hours, Sorrows, what are they? Nearer or far, they Vanish in sunshine, like dew from the flowers. Years, I am glad of them! Would that I had of them More arid yet more while thus mingled with thine. Age, I make light of it! Fear not the sight of it, Time's but our playmate, whose toys are divine. —Thomas Wentworth Higginson. P A HEARTY LAUGH. A laugh is jusFlike sunshine; It freshens all the day; It tips the peak of life with light And drives the clouds away'; The soul grows glad that hears it, Arid feels its courage strong. A laugh is just like sunshine, For cheering folk along. A laugh is just like music, It lingers in the heart, And where its melody is heard, The ills of life depart. And happy thoughts come crowding Its joyful notes to greet— A laugh is just like music, For making living sweet.