The Junior Dominion

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 287, 31 August 1935, Page 25

The Junior Dominion

Dear Boys and Girls, — And so she is really here to stay, the dainty spring maiden. Every corner has felt her gentle touch now, every hidden cranny is blossoming forth. I found her in a quiet corner the other day. I stood on a rickety, tumbledown little bridge, mosses hiding its rotting boards, and the green, weeping arms of ivy slowly dragging it down into the stream beneath. Hanging over the water, dipping their trailing fingers covered with the tender new-born green shoots, the weeping willows drooped, tapping at and reaching for the waxen, cup-like blossoms of the frail waterlily, floating with their round leaves (like stools for frogs') covering the expanse of the stream both tip and down. Beyond, the pure gold of the straight willows glinted and'glowed in lie sunlight, and on the warm new greenness of a sheltered hillside field I could see in a space betiveen the trees young lambs, pure and snowy vhite, playing beyide their mothers. A breath, a sweet perfume passing ’>y with a soft spring wind—and 1 knew she was there. On mv wav home 1 made a aarland of

iJh Wly Way nuruc i thwm u yww** uj spring buttercups and daisies, and I thought of this poem which 1 had just heard —

Turn thine eyes to earth and heaven, God for thee the Spring has given, Taught the birds their melodies, Clothed the earth and cleared the skies, i For thy pleasure and thy food— Pour thy soul in gratitude. * # * A May you all have the happiest of spring holidays! —KIWI.