THANKFULNESS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2817, 2 August 1890, Page 5 (Supplement)

THANKFULNESS.

Thiink Giid for life ! Lifo is nut sweet always. Hands may be heavy laden, heart care full, Unwelcome nights follow unwelcome days ; And dreams divine end in awakening dull, Still it is life, and life is cause f-ir praise ; This ache, this restlessness, this quickening; still!?, Prove- mo n.i torpid and inanimate thine, Prove mo of Kim who is of lifo tho spring I am alive—and that is beautiful.

Thank God for love ; though love may hurt 1 and wound, ] Tlkiukli set with sharpest thorns its rose may be ; Rosns aro not of winter all attuned ( .Uust be the earth filled with soft air and , free, And warm ere dawns the rose upon its tree. I Fresh currents through iny frozen pulses run, My heart has tasted summer, tasted sun ; i And I thank thee, Lord, although not one Of the many roses bloom for me. Thank God for death ; bright thing with dreamv namo; Wb wrong with mournful flowers her pure still brow, We heap her with reproaches and with blame ; Her sweetness and her fitness disallow Questioning bitterly on the why and how; But calmly mid our clamour and surmise She touches each in turn, and each grows wise Taught by tho light in her mysterious eyes, J shall be glad, and f am thankful now. --Susan Oooudgk, in Sunday Chronicle.