VERSES FOR YOU

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1933, Page 20

VERSES FOR YOU

"KING WINTER." (Original.) ■ King Winter is here, alas and alack'l For icy and stern is he; He sends cold shivers right down our back, How angry and rough he can be! With his favourite colours, red and blut, He paints our noses, and fingers, too And that' is a spiteful thing X 0 ao- '' ' ■TRIXCESS SILVER HOSE" (il», Mlramar. "ANOTHER PICTURE." (By Matthew Arnold.) Raised are the* dripping oars, silent the bo»t: The lake, lovely and soft as a dream, Swims in, the sheen of the ■ moon. " ■'; ■ The mountains stand at its head. Clear in the pure June night, But the valleys ' are' flooded1 with' ha£«. ' ' Sent by - ; . '. ; "EMILY OF NEW MOON" (13)* Northland. ■ . > "WINTER.": ■■'■; ' (Original.) . .'Twas .a cold day In Winter, \ • ■•• And snow lay thick on the ground, ' For Mother Goose was shedding her feithMt : All about and Around. • ■■■ ■ ■: .; Inside, the Are burnt brightly, The children were busy1 at' play; ' ' While snowflakes wore falling lightly' On the snowman they'd made that. day. "SNOWDROP" (10): Lower Hurt. * * * ' - .' "ON A WINTER'S NIGHT." (Ordinal.)' ' Now we are golnz To the fire-all glowing— The fire red and bright, : The chestnuts just right, ■' i Till with stories and sewing Too sleepy we're growing, . And so—goodnight I ' r 'IGITHA" (9); Belmont. • ... ~ <