SUNSET GATES AJAR.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1568, 22 July 1882, Page 6

SUNSET GATES AJAR.

To-xight as I flat at my window, When the west was all agleam With that .strange and wonderful splendor, -That is fleeting as a dream ; I thought that the hands of the angels Had flung open heaven's gateway wide : And I caught a glimpse of the glory From, the hilla on the other side. Is it not a beautiful fancy, This sunset thought of mine. That the gates of heaven are always Flung open at day's decline ? That those whose day is ended Of earthly woes and ills, May pass to the morning sunihine, That dwells on the heavenly hills P "When for me the sunset gateway Shall at day's decline inclose, And I pass in through its portals To that long and sweet repose, I know that I shall remember, In that city so fair and far, My strange and beautiful fancy Of the suuset gates ajar. Perhaps, while I sat there di earning Of the gateway in the west, Some poor soul went through the portals To a long and endless rest ; Passed through the sunset gateway To that " city paved with sold "—" — Passed into the new life's gladness, To be no longer old.

Two Irishmen were* poring over a newspaper, and coming to the heading " Latest," and then immediately following ifc, to the heading "Very Litest," one said to the other, " An' s>ure, Tim, will ye be after expliiinin' what this manes?"' " Arrah, bedad," said Tim, " an' it's meself that can explain it to ye. Sure the latest is what comes in time to be printed, and the very latest is that what comes in after the paper is out.