REBELS.

New Zealand Tablet, 26 June 1919, Page 43

REBELS.

Now while this tingling ecstasy is 6ur¥, iV .-, :> - When touch and look are barbed with strange swift ['■ -: -fire,;;.-;:-.,--•.•'.- : %: ' u io r ?\yi*.- <>VT' r dtt. '1 H- ! " When Life's a melody upon Love's lyre, Charming, ou* tranced sense through golden hours Though hearts aflame reck not of faded flowers, :4 - Time bides his day—ere glutted ; passion tire, lop. erl And only pale cold ashes mark its pyre— .1 ysiK ?ni Old tyrant Time, and waiting : grins and 'glowers. ■: r,v ; We will be rebels, dear, against his rule, : : - >i*v s - And, cunning plotters, thwart Time's envious sway; Kind tolerance, with wise-eyed sympathy, > ;■'.ri ■.," < j And self-forgetfulness, our hearts shall school ;:v=ii;v/s ■••■■■■•' To keep alive,' though passion wane and die, vLove's steadfast flame, when we are old and grey. Ernest Blake, in the English Review.; >