SILENCE.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 19, 23 July 1920, Page 1

SILENCE.

What singer yet hath ever fully strpng On straining lyre The loveliness of love, the pain of pain? Howe'er the poet 'plain His passionate paean, mingling glass and fire, The inmost will remain Unsung, unsung. Perhaps, on some far pinnacle of song, Beyond his bound, One ultimate word lies, strangely holding all ; But though its mystic acll Throb through the shining sequences of sound, It doth not yet befall In any tongue. And I have found, when baflled from the quest Of some supreme Unclouded utterance of my visioning, A far more wondrous Thing : Silenoe alone can give the golden dream A clear interpreting : Silence is best.