TWO MYSTERIES
Two r.if,o-bushes put on their garments of green, Two rose-bushes stately as ever were seen ; They warmed in the sunlight and drank iu the rain, And grew into beauty and blossom again ; Alike in their form and alike iu their root, The same soil feeding each delicate shoot, Yet the blossoms of one were immaculate white. While the othei bloomed red in the warm Juno light. Two children, unconscious of sorrow and sin, Both lovely without and lovely within ; Life's path was so smooth for the soft, tender feet, It seemed still a part of the Heavenly street; Yet living they grow in their souls far apart, These lives that once clung to the same mother heart, And who would have thought from the hope that was given, One would blossom for earth and tho other for Heaven ? —Mollio A. Mason.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2319, 21 May 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)
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143TWO MYSTERIES Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2319, 21 May 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)
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