Sonnets and Other Verse

SONNETS
AND OTHER VERSE
W. M. MacKERACHER
Author of Canada, My Land
TORONTO WILLIAM BRIGGS 1909
Copyright, Canada, 1909, by W. M. MacKERACHER.
CONTENTS.

SONNETS AND OTHER VERSE.
THE OLD AND THE NEW.
Scorn not the Old; 'twas sacred in its day, A truth overpowering error with its might, A light dispelling darkness with its ray, A victory won, an intermediate height, Which seers untrammel'd by their creeds of yore, Heroes and saints, triumphantly attained With hard assail and tribulation sore, That we might use the vantage-ground they gain'd.
Scorn not the Old; but hail and seize the New With thrill'd intelligences, hearts that burn, And such truth-seeking spirits that it, too, May soon be superseded in its turn, And men may ever, as the ages roll, March onward toward the still receding goal.