VERSEMAKERS.
The. sun was setting in tho west Behind, the. mountains' tall, The sky did look its very best. ; When the sun appeared to fall. The moon waa rising in the east, The stars were shining bright; The sky was slightly ovcrcu'st AVith streaks of shining light. JOAN PKOCTOK. Rai Valley. 1 Is this your very first verse-making, Joan? There are; ways in which it is ■ good, and ways in which, it could be better. Its-rhymes »ro .. right .._. . ; unless you .meant the first and third: linos tq rhyme in 'the second verse as vrell as the;fifst;;;;They. don't, do: they? "And.the .rhythni's right. But you speak of things that havo luippened a thousand million tiroes, and so . . . though it is a very hard thing to do . . . . you must find it- new way of telling: us. '. . ■.■■■,■•.••.'.; ,-. ■■ ' ■ ■. '.■■■■ ::;'.::^: '''■;:■...'■,^.I'AIBIEL.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 15
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135VERSEMAKERS. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 10, 12 January 1929, Page 15
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