NIGHT AND DEATH.
Mysterious Night ! when our first parents knew Thee from report divine, and heard thy -name, Did he not tremble for this lovely frame, This glorious canopy of light and blue? Yet 'neath a curtum of translucent dew, Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame, Hesperus with the host of Heaven came ; And lo ! creation widened in men s view. Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed Within thy beams, O Sun, or who could find, Whilst fly and leaf and insect stood revealed. That to such countless orbs thou mad st us blind? Why do we, then, shun death with anxious strife; If light can thus deceive us, may not life?
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2218, 25 September 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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117NIGHT AND DEATH. Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2218, 25 September 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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