OAK AND IVY
Ground-ivy crawled upon her native earth With discontent; aloft she fain would rise—- ■ But how?— looking up she near espies The Regal Oak, and hastens with glad mirth Unto his feet !— and he, her humble worth / Disdaining not, makes stronger the frail ties £ Wherewith she mounting, clings ! . . I deem her wise That such a lover wins for leaving dearth. Dear God! —more kind to . us than kind "Oak-tree To Ivy ! . Discontented here below ' We climb that would : for Thou rejectest never £ The arms of little ones that cling to Thee! — Thou wouldst us draw, till highest height we go; i" And Oak arid Ivy wedded "be for ■ ever" !-"tr . J&SirysxS 4 —Edwaud Badger, in I Studies. ? , V
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New Zealand Tablet, 19 June 1919, Page 7
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120OAK AND IVY New Zealand Tablet, 19 June 1919, Page 7
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