BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 799, 23 April 1910, Page 9

BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

: ; j VVERSES OLD AND NEW: < < ;.-■.;■:., ■'-TRANSMUTATION. ' Earth is your heaven, sweet buds, I know, ■■•" This,is, in. letters of sunshine, writ, ilea, and'your happiness, .tells/me; 50,,. -■■;• But. wheiice and-how did you'enter it?- . .Were ye the-'beatings. of; lovers', hearts, Notes from the..poets' truest' lays?. > : were your mortal counterparts, ..-: . o.angels clad in' Hie garb.of praise? ..-iWonld.'ye have''-whispered the-truth, but •;: '■ , could not?~ c '■•''■; '-'i'-'v . :' s '-> ;- ' ■ ■';/'--What-of this tremulous guess of ours— :' [Thoughts of God that .wo-.understood not "Construed into the speech" of flowers? . ■ '.;■ . ,'.— A.W. .in"'the-..'TJailj;'.News_."__ ■ '■.- :; '. ■'•■ '••■'■■ ' • "'" ■:- -.■'<"-.,:...; "'.-; ~-\ ;:.: ..colgai paddock. : I knowithat tlie-tawny grass-of the plain Is blown like tho sea to-day Sy : the wind that follows the -autumn : '■' .-■ rain ■'• "/ ■'- :': "■'• ' ■ ■•". ; . • ' .. .; And chases the clouds away .:■'-.. .. 'And ruffles the winding lagoon; and now The sky's .azure cool, and clean • / . .Will.show, in''the lee where the rushes ■' j bbw, ',■,; ■••..' '. ■ ■ • ''•." ' ■ ■■•■■'..- ..-' 'like Blattered aquamarine. -. .' . : .. ■ ■ .--..-■■ ,';. ■,•'.. ■';■ . ■ ■.-'. "■"■•■.; .- O ' ■ 10-day, when.'the cranes in: their grey.- ; 'and pink . 1 Fish solemnly in the weeds, . when -the.-cattle come down to ~ > drink, >~-, -,- > , ; .' .;■'..--.;,: ... . '. ■ And ..push. -. through'.' -the, whispering '-;"-.... reeds;,,, ; • "■.. ■. '-.'.-..'.. "•> ■ -:., .eeto l i^there''anaSate!i^tkem;^in;' ; Cu]giai : V- " tOp,; : ','V' ; .' ; ;ili'::^;^,C ; ;y^(;' ; "S' ; ''" ' ' .." ' And tfiey never Keed : or ffear. {Chere is not; one lark in. the radiant blue -. Whose -carol I- : do not hear. .{This morning the wind .on the grasses ■■ . .brown : -': ; Blows tingling and sweet and rare.'.'. . Jlowi though my .body must, tarry - in town, . 'Praise be that my soul is there! •-Dorothea Mackellar, in the "Spectator."

V . ;■'■ . JUANAVLA. LOCA\ ■ flate this''stifled land'of jostling trees, ■■.. ■ . Where shado - is'gripp'd .in ishade '■ and fimells '-of ■ '"death: ■■'.' '■•■ ■'■ - : - - : -. : |0 for.the naked plain' of-sun'and breeze, "•'■' "Where ■ broad gleams' flutter,- shadow "". . wanderoth, i> ,•/..,■ ';..-. ..'■ ftnd the' .wide. sky- iheets the wide -land ' ■ afar; . .'•.'■; :,:-.".;• "■::.:':-. V.r.-. - : .Whore strong "noon, pants, and 'the night's-wholesome breath ... . , lEreshens to life with.every rising star.. • There the moon stares upon the".whole white, world, ''.... .. Bad free, void bigness is, and voices are— >; Not this flat stillness, like a green flag it ..- fnrl'd, . ' . I {Selling no signal. How I loathe these ;!'■■'■ glades,' ..•■''.. ■•.".■■•'. •i .'Their lean sour grass and silent stieam- ,.■:. ■.. let curl'd. .Hmong . its ■ oozy 6odges, whose sharp v>. blades. , '■;■■■ ■ . ■ ..■/" ...Mirtter death-secrets as the.wan light : . <.:';.;'fades. •' '■ ■ ■ .. • ■ ■. Hfohn Ayscou'gh, in the '"Westminster \: Gazette."' .-,■ ' . .