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0 ! ore ta dooinney, cjuoi dye neern’s soylagh oh
?
Ny cre ta towshan giare slams cash e yea ?
Te myr yn hlaa aalyn sy voghery,
Eisht giant sheese as fiogit roish yn oic.
Ta paart dy sleih ta kirijagh ayns ininea,
Er cc fardail kinjagh nyu aigney ta;
Myrnagh beagh ad dy bragh yn seihll aggail;
Ny srnooinaght or quoi toe nv gooyl ny quaail.
My nec shiu ronsagh magh trooid sushtal Yee,
Ayns shen cha vow shiu moylley mooar erbee:
Cour lheid y sleih ta son yn seihil shoh paa,
Nagh vel chur geill dy cosnoy maynrys braa.
Tad girree moghrey gyn srnooinaght or y Chiarn,
Dy re e phooar ta’r coadey ad ayns dagh Ayrn:
Tiiioojd whilleen gaue tad fakin myr tad shooyl,
As throcid daujoyr nagh vaik ad lesh nyn sooill.
Clia vol ad croymmey cheese cur ooashley da,
Ny or E eniiyni graihagh wheesh gimraa ;
Dy cur (Ta booise so:i slaynt, as soii dagh nheo,
Son coadoy ad nyns gaueyu rnooar yn clii.
Ga ta shin clashtyn kiujagh laa iurg lao
Jeli daft •V Chiarii or feiy fly cruinney to
Paart ta slayntoil yn tn tad goll dy lhie,
Fosley nyu sooiliyn ayns seilill dy spyrrycllyu stIfle P
Paart to gl~oll magh or gys nyu obbyr lao,
Nagh vol (ty bragh ree~h gys nyn dhieyn ci~yudaa.
Ta’n baase doaltattyrii geamagh ad ersooyl
Eisht cooid yn seihil shegin dane fagail ny gooyl.
Shoh eisht, my c~iaarjya, cronuey shenu as aeg,
Cha leahe tan chaghter cheet dygheddyn ad.
Cha ieah’s te geam shogin doom dy bean goll roin,
As iivrey sl~ees~ :iyn girp gys 0011’ as joan.
Qu~)i cisl~t veagli inoyr nagli as mooarauc cooid S3?
theihil,
Tra shogin (lOOm oh ayns traa cha giare aagail 9
Ooilley yn seihul dy yinniu cosney oh,
Cha vod eli elsoyrt un lao dys cash my yea.
Paart ayns yu caggoy ta nyu mioys coayll
Paart or yn aarkey gys yn dimiid ghoi~,
As liorish aile paart elley or coyft mow ;
lcys lhisagh shia tan mayrn goaill tas~ey j’iu.
Ta dagh unuauo oc sholi doom SOIl rampleyr,
Greinnaghey shin dy hooyl sy cassan cair,
Yn road mooar lheau ta leeideil gys vn vance, ~r_~ ~ ~
Oh ! What is man, and what man’s earthly stage ?
And what life’s measure for the child or sage ?
Full like sweet blossom fair in morning light,
Cut down and withered ore the shades of night.
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Ah I well we know there are who nothing hold,
Not time nor mind, so dear as worthless gold;
Forgetful that their earthly life must end;
Forgetful whither carnal longings tend.
Christ’s Gospel shows the faithful’s highest
meed
Is Faith—in measure as a mustard seed.
These fond, frail fools, who strive but earthly strife,
Care naught to struggle for eternal life.
Each morning rising thankless from their beds,
They think not of the God who guards their heads;
Tempted, endangered, yet all unaware
How near the fall—how close the earthly snare.
Never on betided knees to God they raise,
Hyianiug His lovely name, the voice of praise ;
No thanks ascend for health, no thanks for love
Which guards and shields the sinner from above.
How oft again we hear the well-worn tide
Of men who weaken not, nor slowly fail,
But waking from an earthly slumber, know
Another world—no more this world below?
Men to their work go forth, who novel- more
Shall lift the latch to pass the cottage door.
Death snrnmons man full oft with sudden voice
To leave the joys and labours of his choice.
Not hoary ago alone doth hear his call
On faithful ears the dreadful tidings fall.
The Herald speaks—tn hear is to obey—
And to OUI native dust to pass away.
~ then on worldly goods would SCi the
heart
Which from all worldly things at last must
part P
i: cannot—if the whole wide world I gain—
Another day of earthly life obtain.
War takes its toll ; the sea its tribute claims
;
Falls with the house the household ‘midst the
flames ~
But we, Preserved from ill, no lesson icara—
Nor to our weal the woes of others turn.
The sudden halt in others’ lives should teach
More careful walk to us.
The road to reach
Destruction’s goal is wide, and broad. and fair
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