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The Spike or Victoria University College Review 1934

Crossroads

page 90

Crossroads

By Rivers brink two pathways met, and one
Was smoothed by years of travelling feet,
And onwards winding through the sunless trees,
Mid sound of slumbrous waters' dreary dirge,
Was lost in mazy twisting through the formless gloom.

Another path there was that reached the sun
Beyond the stream, where mellow radiance
The dark trees parted, to seek in purpling distance
A shroud of hazy mystery wrapp'd gently round
High peaks that loomed enchantingly afar.

Scarce trod was that wild road that led to unsealed
Heights. For the footsteps that travelled its bosom,
Pressed by the souls of them who sought for wisdom,
And passed in numbers few that stony way,
Made a vain beckoning to passers by.

Thus on the shores of that slow stream, Life meets
At the crossroads. Highways of youth and age.
Sternly they clash—fierce conflict rages strongly;
Of aged thought and Youth's bright dream of peace
That lies in the fields beyond the distant sun.

And so on shores of universe that are trembling,
Swift to the throb of time's pulsating chord,
Mid the whirl of spheres beyond the furthest
Where cosmos seeks to reach the infinite,
Life walks a moment—out of eternity!

But a moment! The crossroads of forever—
Beyond the gateway of the travelled past
Few footsteps the mountain road are treading.
Gentle the way-—lost in sunless winding!
And the seekers—embrace a solitary sun.

—E.F.H.