WHEN THE TIDE IS COMING IN.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Issue 22, 22 October 1898, Page 1

WHEN THE TIDE IS COMING IN.

We are standing on the shore Where the brealiing billows roar, We are list'ning to the ocean' b ceaseless din, And. we watch the breakers curl, And their foamy flags unfurl, For the tide is corning slowly, corning in. ' Up the sandy bars they sweep, While the thunders of the deep $reak like voices from some vast abyss ( J within, Deep prophetic chansons hurled i t „ Bound ; the confines of the world, ' Where* the everlasting tides are coming in. Then we slow_ly call away, Like some truant child from play, All r our" scattered thoughts to "things that "' bear' them kin,'- ' ,' f . Fqr the surging waves of Strife '""" Beat upon-the sdnds of Life^ And the tides of human dares 'are coming" in. All about us where we stand, Sweeping upward to the land,

801 l the waves of troubled Tumult,' Passion's twin ; For the mighty -waves of years, Capped with foam of human cares, . Tell us how the tides of Life are coming in. Though we wrestle long and hard, Looking vainly for reward, E'er the tide may turn,,and.victory may begin, Yet the doubt and the dismay Shall be swept at last ,away, For the tide is coming surely, coining in. ' Like the foam upon the sand, Like the" drift »upon the land, All the old-time forms of Vice, of Crime,, " and Sin - <■ Slowly pass and die- away > In the purer, lighttbf day, " , For the tide of Better Things is coming in • Let us seize the golden chance . . , ' As those marshalled iwavesitclvance, _,-, Lest- our vent'rous 1 barks drift -■on. th«_ «•• " ' - shoals, within^ c - - Pushirigjboldly to r explore . _ Begions lying on before, For the tides of Grander Things are com* ing in.

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