QUEEN OF DREAMS.
There stands deep in an unknown woodland A palace of azure and gold, The flick’ring sunshine over it dances, Red poppies around it unfold. The thick trees sway to Zephyr’s whisp’rings, And low, unto the silence, murmur springs.
Within the palace lies, enchanted, A lady more than mortal fair; On trailing silks of T-yridn purple . ■ Like sleeping sunshine falls her hair. The soft wind, fans her with his plumy wings, And drowsy scent of flowers of sleep he brings. . Eolian music round her rises And mingles with a fountain’s plash, And thro’ the casement darts a bluebird With jet-black eyes and beak aflash.. . “It is the sleeping Queen of Dreams," he sings, While thro’ the palace all. the .music rings. —Prize-winning poem by Dorothy Jourdain, Kilbirnie (aged 14 years). ■ .
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 221, 14 June 1930, Page 26
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132QUEEN OF DREAMS. Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 221, 14 June 1930, Page 26
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