Original Poetry.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 592, 7 March 1876, Page 3

Original Poetry.

[The* old church in Hamilton, which was .built during the early «tage» of settlement, having become too small to contain the now very much mcreaied number of its congregation, it wan dtter.mined to tiell.it, end erect ft more suitable building in a different locality. It was purchased by Messrs L vngbndgt and Silver, the new proprietors of the local paper, and by them remored to where it now stands. On its gable can be seen in large blacjc letters " The Waikn'jo Times Office *' The subject of the under poem was witnessed by the Author.] Dreary and fitful the weit wind* were blowin g, Cold were the rain-drops that slantingly fell ; Veiled was t"he tun 07 'the clouds darkly flowing That wild in their fleeting strove madly to moll. BJeal^ waa the aspect that evening in Autumn, All life seemed to vanish or hide them away ; Bare yonder where stood on the gravel-trod forum Two pilgrims' unconaciotn of winter's array. Yes, there they lingered in apparent oblivion, Uncaring, unnoting, the tempest that raged ; T'waj Langbridge and Silver in deep collucution, Devising *nd planning in works they'd engaged, They gazed first below them, then upwards, though sable, And *aved their right arms in great circling lines ; , Contemplating, unthinking, that old church's gable, Concocting aome sign to distinguish tbelr Times. Then Silver laid hold of hit friend by the fore-arm, And brightly exclaimed, " By my faith fts my best ! Let us stick up this motto, most sorely a charm, Bead, mark, learn, and inwardly digest." But Langbridge with fteling and pious forebodingCast a look that was sad at hit blasphemous mate,, t " Your brains are demented or badly corroding, I could not permit it, canting phrases I bate." Alfts! could they think that within that same structure, W hose gable they peered at while bantering below, Dear mothers, dear wives,, dear sisters, in juncture In sorrow in weeping their heart's prayer did flow. Ay, strong was the grief, and tamest the plsading — For that Being who wields the destination's of raee — To proteot on the frontier those dear ones then bleeding, And fighting for homes and their friends to solace. It was then that our pastors in meek exhortation, Strove hard for 'to comfort the weary and weak, Or raise from depression or abject distraction Poor souls that from bloodshed and horror re> treat. There too our young men and maidens were wedded, An^wore to love always for better for worse ; Therew>o our infants for Christians intended, Where folded and signed 'from the arm* of their nurse. But now it is rained from the rock that it stood . . on, And carried away like the drift of the sea, To rest on 'some other and weaker foundation, And cast its loved shade oe'r a withering lea. The"n stranger behold it near Hamilton footway, Lifting its old gothic roof to the skies, Beueath you can look through its newly cut portwav. And study its '• devils " and " graphical dies.', Bat I pray from tbe heart that this old pile now soaring, Shall last till all living have passed o'er that t&aiu ; May editorial breezes, and tho storm fiercely roaring, Be unable to harm it ; 'may its prestige remain. G. B. Bebri. March 2nd, 1876. [You b«t it will, Mr LaureaU ! The WiiiiTO TIMIS is published tri- weekly. Subscription 6s per quarter in adranc. Job printing & all it? br.ncteD.-fil> WX]

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