A FEW MORE MORNINGS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2131, 6 March 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

A FEW MORE MORNINGS.

A few more mornings, yet a few more mornings, We'll watch the lights low dawning dull and gray ; A f«w. more mornings and we'll faintly . murmur To those who love us, " Tis our latest • ' day." From weary brows will fall the life-worn mask. From tired hands will drop the half done task. A few more mornings, but a few more mornings, Others will take the work that we laid down ; Will lift it where wo left it in tho shadows ; Will bear its cross, peichance will wear the crown We sighed for, toiled for, all our fleeting hours — The crown of crowns, that never could be ours. A few more mornings: Amid distant dawnmgs, They who come after us will softly say, u Where now the labour of those gone before us, The recompense of all their burdened day? They are not missed where they were always seen. All life moves on as if they had not been. '> A few more mornings ! Still will be forever The heart that thrills to-day with love c dear pain, Its suffering done. All done the long endeavour The far-out yearning of the lofty brain. There'll be in the low house where we lie down, N« love, no hate, no dream of high renown, A few more morns : 'Twill all be told, our story, So sweet, so brief. Why war with changeless fate ? Why <yy for love? Why spend our strength for glory ? Why pray to God with prayer inportunate? His centuries go ; we still must come and pass But as the shadows on the summer grass. A few more morns : Again, again in beauty The earth will wear the splendour of her ♦ springs, While wo within the univerne of spirits SVill wander somewhere among viewless things. Where'er it be in all the heaven of air, We still muat sec our human home is fair ; Wondrous must be God's pi ft to compensate For all we miss within our human fate.