LAST NIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 7, 9 January 1926, Page 21

LAST NIGHT.

T-ast cizhf when the moon rose—round and white — Ovnr the crest of the distant hill. Ton san? your .son? to us there last nizht' When the sleeping world lay hushed tnd Oh. why did the sepnted breeze 3 shake The oak trees' foliage then? I vow It was that the envious birds should wake And hear your songs 'neath the leafy bough! J They say. in this sunlit southern land The birds thereof have been silent Ion'" • .Why they sins no more I understand — I-or you have stolen the wild birds' son;:! Ah, I saw the bright stars wane—and swoon. And heard the murmurous night-wind sigh ! Ton sanjr .your son?—and the placid moon Trembled and paled in the soft blue sky. You sang last night, and the saddened bird Away to her leafy-hid nestlings flew Knowing their music -would ne'er be heard. Since Heaven had given their songs to you ! .- — HAHBY IIOBAXT.