28 NOVEMBER 1896, Page 15

POETRY.

GOLD AND SILVER.

OUT upon your earthly pelf—

Give me gold and silver's self : Glint of golden suns at noon,

Lustres of the argent moon—

All the gold you sky receives For his shining morns and eves, All the gold that April spills On the bowing daffodils ; Golden hearts of silver daisies, Fairy gold of poets' phrases, Little children's golden heads Dreaming in their star-lit beds Of a mother's silvered hair Bowed above their faces fair,

Half in blessing, half in prayer—

All the golden boon of day, All the long night's silvern sway, All the overflowing measure Of God's gold and silver treasure.

ARTHUR AUSTIN-JACEEON.