DISTANT MUSIC.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 12 January 1924, Page 10

DISTANT MUSIC.

i (Written for The Christian Science Monitor). Elm branches, Swaying, Balancing a million leaves Against a cloud of siiver. What ma^ic in your stately dip and toss? . I What meaning in your mystic tvandtro ? Some fragrance from tlio hills of youth bw«eps through these swaying boughs. Some distant music ,- That has <J.v<?lt long upon the efUe of silence. A door is njKined out of long npo. Faces !ook forth frosj) long fo^jfton windows. Faist calls .1 hear, j Echoes, and fainter ,inwv«t, j Across tlvc- fields of clnldnoml. 1 Ah! they wore wry fair, those folds those faces. All changeless now, All beautiful for ever, SkiHing like clouds above the hills of sunrise With early light upon them. Ye bring me back the golden j.ft«-r----noons jOf some slow smouldering October, i Elm branches, i Majestically swaying, Brushing the hidden portals of reraerabranco. —Odd! Sltfpard.