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CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS Sonnet — "For the hairs of your head are all numbered." —

God numbers them, His servants' hoary hairs, Blanched for eternity, no longer seen In glory of a youthful Nazarene Bareheaded in the sun, but fraught with cares And fewer, as each year our strength impairs, And we are hit with arrows straight and keen Of Death's strong Angel, shooting hard between To prove our armour how it holds and wears, "But not a hair shall perish," in the rage of wintry storms now near, which without ruth Will cast our bark of life upon the shore Of the immortal spirits, where old age Drops from us, and the beauty of our youth Returns, and we grow younger ever more. W Kirby Niagara April 1889 61