THE FAREWELL MELODY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 99, 29 April 1939, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE FAREWELL MELODY.

I (By Eleanor McKinnnn, Mount Eden.) The old ship lay on its side on th® <-and and a.s the wind sighed between the sand dunes it seemed as if the ship was whispering to the wind. The moon was full and golden, a calm sea lapped the stern of the wreck, and stars gleamed faintly. "Ah!" came the ship's whisper, "once I was a proud galleon sailing the seven seas with a proud mast, a proud flag and a proud captain. Xow look at me! Cast here to lie unknown and uneared for. But I am happy. For every day a band of children comes to play upon my decks. They pretend they are pirates one day, and bold explorers the next. "Their bright ways make me feel myself again, but I cannot stay here long, for soon I will be taken by the sea to the ship's resting ground. A place beneath the *ea where all old ships go to rest in peace below the foaming billows." < The whisper ceased and the night was •silent. One day. soon after, there was a great storm, when it seemed as if the wind and sea had formed one qreat orchestra and were playing one melody. In the morning the old ship was no longer lying on the sand.s. It had been taken by the sea to the resting place of all ships far, far below the foaming billows.