THE WAVES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 6 September 1913, Page 9

THE WAVES.

The waves cried "Follow!" The waves cried "Follow!'* - Laughed and beckoned her further out; Lured her ,slyly to arches hollow, Clasped her ankles with foam about; Showed her pearls in the blue recesses. Threaded moons on the mermaids' dresses, . Hidden treasures in reefs below, rifting breaker and creaming hollow, The waves cried "Follow!" The waves" cried "Follow!" The waves cried "Follow!" They loved her so. # A gull went dipping—a gull went dipping, Pioneering; the blue, for food, Over, the starry sparkle slipping: With a bill that was red as blood, Till a waft-of its snowy wing caressed A wee'l-rineed brow and a cold, cold "breast; . " . • . ' Now ascending, now swooping low. While the waves.cried "Follow!" The waves cried "Follow!" The waves cried "Follow!" They loved her so. • —M. Forrest,, in Australasian.