Answer to “Phosphorous."

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 331, 30 July 1889, Page 3

Answer to “Phosphorous."

[TO TUB BMTOB.] Sia,—Your poet’s quite facetious, and spite lul too likewise, Claims to have seen a vision, with his pair of dreaming eyes, Which a mystic theme expounded—Oh 1 therein lies a tale:— Has he been where Jonah never was—in the belly of a whale, And kissed the lovely mermaids in Ocean’s charmed retreat, On the border line of fancy, where truth and extremes meet 1 There this dreamer met a grizzly beard, with a phosphorescent light, On whose honest face he loved te look, so unusual was tbs sight; But missed a scene of beauty—-these mermaids passing fair Would have made that dreamer’s soul to dance could he have seen them there, Clasped in the folds of Ocean’s bosom, just at the dawn of day, Where the tints of thorn and shades of night in mystic rytbm play. They rollicked in the sweet embrace of freedom's power and might, Far from the haunts of those busy foes - envy, malice, and spite. Then these mermaids held a seance in the ocean caves below, Where gems of dazzling brilliance in radiant splendour glow, And the golden hues of fancy tinged with a yellow light, But added richer glories to the- quickened spirit’s sight, And they sported on the corals and among the flowers that grew In the depths of mighty ocean beneath her waters blue. It was there I learned a secret: shall I toll it to dreamers all ?— We spoke of man's creation (they said), there never was a fall, And that those who set themselves io know taught little else but cram, And would be much better if employed in spreading bread and jam To feed the hungry and tiso needy, the wretched and the poor, Who stood upon the threshold of Poverty's wide door, And that ha who will rise superior to doing aught that’s wrong, Beat reverences the power that spoke all things in wisdom strong. J. Bandlaht. [This oorrespondanae must now csaae,— Es, StANDABB.'J