Poetry.
TUB LAIiCRNU.M,
The zephyrs bring the bright-eyed spring, Tim shrubs their (lowers unfold. And midst them the laburnum tree Hangs like a shower of gold. Like Jupiter in classic myth 'the shower descends to earth, And winged flowers leave ripening seeds With promise of new birth. lint not a single growing germ Prolongs the golden line, “ What waste 1” the caviller exclaims, " What absoneo of design 1” Look ci- ser. Every leaf and seed That once bad vital powers Survives, supplying bird or branch With joyous life of flowers. From far infinitude commenced, When starry worlds began, A golden chain from heaven to earth One link in which is man. To keen opticians aided sight Both air and water yitdd Harvests of thought; but mazy depths Unnumbered lie concealed. Who can reverse the lens to see What beings round us move, Greater and mightier than wo, More full of life and love? Tho tiny fly that passing by Upon our finge’r came Could nnvor know tho character Or features of our frame. A. G. L’Estrange.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2358, 20 August 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)
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176Poetry. Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2358, 20 August 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)
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