POETS’ CORNER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2652, 6 November 1909, Page 1 (Supplement)

POETS’ CORNER.

TWENTY THOUSAND YEARS AGO. (In “The Bulletin.”) A prehistoric skeleton has been found in the postfrertiary rocks in the Department of Dordogne, France, dating back 20,000 years.—Cable item. One. of course, is quite unable To declare the yarn a fable. Though the capers of the cable ■Send some fables to and fro! But it’s rather rough on Adam And his apple-chewing madam, tf in fig-leaves others clad ’em . Twenty Thousand Years Ago ! Some iconoclastic scribe’ll Have a further chance to libel The compilers of the Bible, Moses, Solomon and co.! Since it quite destroys the glory Of the Snake-and-Applc story If mankind were tough and Tory Twenty Thousand Years Ago! Yes! It really seems that Science, With the Devil in alliance. Sets Religion at defiance! And one grieves it should be so! And it makes one's grief grow thicker, Man distilling grapes for liquor, Maybe “getting on the shikker” Twenty Thousand Years Ago! —W.-T. Goodge. DELIVERANCE. lii that sore- hour around thy bed there stood A silent guard of shadows, each eqmpt With dart or arrow aimed against thy life. Thy breath came slowly all that awful night. Outside I heard the wind and earth at strife, And on tho window's ledge incessant dript Tho pitiless rain. At last I left thy room, And passing out, upon its threshold’s edge, Whom should I meet but Death! A wan clear light Fell from his fathomless eyes, Ills brow was gloom, • His rustling raiment seemed to sign , like sedge . ■ When the salt marsh winds beat a::"! wail thereon. He paused, he turned; and while I stood and shone On the door’s lintel, even such a one As he obeyed in Egypt, and I knew Death heard some higher summons and y withdrew. . When I returned like a tired child yon slept. " ■ ■ •” V , —W. J. BaWSOB.