LA FILLS AUX CHEVEUX DE LIN.
Calm, calm were you when I saw you, my love, As you walked, and your eyes were expressive With a sweet seriousness, a gay silence; I knew then that your young heart was not passive. And your flaxen hair combed back from your forehead Bewitched' me. like the sound of music playing, A song in a remote beautiful language. Or tune from fingers to deft keys ■ applying. Calm you paused like a murmur of wonderment — Stay! I would have cried, do not go, so given For delight; but I spoke not, in wonder That my mind could be with beauty so graven. —J. C. BEAGLEHOLE. Wellington. SPRINGS ETERNAL. How fine to be young and feci the riotous sap Through the veins flowing. And the thoughts and emotions racing and battling within Pulsating and glowing. Yet how far finer in age not to catch your soul On the grave brooding, But to feel the bright, laughing fountain leaping still. Bubbling and flooding. —ARNOLD WALL. Christchureh., t \ ...J
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 1 (Supplement)
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