Excerpt from Verses
When, through the opening vista of the year Gazing, the hopeful eye beholds The blossom and the fruit the purpling bud enfolds And greets the homely daisies that early star the plain, As heralds of the hours When all the garden bowers And each uncultured comer of Nature's wide domain Shall sparkle in the splendour of a thousand flowers. Joys to come the spirit cheer; Summer's golden prime, Autumn's mellow time, In the sudden sunshine of the Spring appear.
Nature moves within us with a subtle power; The falling of the leaf Touches our thoughts to grief, And again the Spirit gladdens at the opening of the flower. Man, soul-endowed, of heritage divine, Yet, fashioned from the common clay, Must with his fellow-creatures share The influence of the common air. He feels a stronger pulse within his bosom play, When the reviving breath of Heaven Anew to earth a living soul hath given And his heart, like hers, rejoices, his face, like hers, doth shine.
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