NEW ZEALAND VERSE.
AS I PASSED BY. This evening as I passed by the garden gate Where the Jamine droops her stars on the purple dusk, Mingling her scent with the rain-wet mignonette, . With laurel-bloom and musk, I leaned and listened, for in the topmost spires Of the poplar trees, in the aspens by the : wall, The birds of the air were singing in unseen choirs A lovely madrigal. I heard . > . and knew that the strains of my own heart's song Must fail with the singing birds at the end of all, Cease in the darkness, drift in a shadowy throng, And into silence fall. —A. K. P. FAIRBURN. • Auckland.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 134, 8 June 1929, Page 11 (Supplement)
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110NEW ZEALAND VERSE. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 134, 8 June 1929, Page 11 (Supplement)
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