SONNET: THE OLD SONG.
If I should borrow lips from other lovers, Who sang of beauty vanished long ago, How could I tell what now' the rich hear!, covers For one so living, with so quick a now Of present laughter? ret If I anew _ ; Fumble for words, I can but tell it so; j "Merry and wise is she, tender and true,'' ( And "She is more fair than any lass I • know." '• 0. all the shepherd's pipes of Arcady. All songs of lover-knights, before they , tilted, All Solomon's enamoured melody. And all that cavaliers ever lilted—• What more than this can any of thnt.; prove: , "She is most lovely and she is my love? —A. WOLSELEt RUSSELL.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 46, 23 February 1929, Page 1
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118SONNET: THE OLD SONG. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 46, 23 February 1929, Page 1
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