L'ALLEGRO.
Yet why for the Then only hope— for tho Now but scant praise, and that grudgingly 7 This trivial and common-place Now — is't not part of the heaving Time-ocean On which in the grand Fast historic or Future ineffable Hath been, or shall yet be such splendor of storm and of sunrise ? 0 1 wisdom is yet with the wise as of old it was found to be - 'Tis the eyes of the fool whioh are looking to earth's far extrcmetics ! Hath health and success been vouchsafed thee? art hearty and happy? What doth the Gi/t-giver ask but right use of thy faculties ? Art thou unhappy ?— what soil h He -accept thou tho punishment — Vicarious it mny bo, transmitted 1 from erring progenitors, Self incurred, too, perchance, or permitted by infinito wisdom. Yet bow I and that Justice in xvbicl 1 thou with pain ncquiceceat Shall yet for thy '.vrithinpfl a) id wtonga bring a io?ompense glorious ! Cahltonus.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2057, 12 September 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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159L'ALLEGRO. Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2057, 12 September 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)
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