COLOURS.
I love —■ Wild mint crushed blue upon an emerald field Where velvet cows ivory and black roam browsing, Near russet hedge that slanting shadows yield, Cast by the orange glow of a fiery sun’s deep drowsing. The blue enamelled tint of restless butterflies Gay dancing facets clipped from noon-day skies. Or the beryl sheen of poplar leaves a-twisting in the breeze Contoured against the silver line of distant outer trees. Yet more I love — The frailness of these paints That luminous shine at midnight. When the moqn Translates your sleeping form to marble-white, Pours on your sculptured loveliness a wondrous light, Strokes pale your golden hair, and haloes to a saint’s; Your lily face, that dawn will flush too soon; Tho’ when the moon-swept pattern I adore has gone Perfection of your- virgin grace will still live on. —E.M.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume VL, Issue 3132, 9 February 1934, Page 3
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140COLOURS. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume VL, Issue 3132, 9 February 1934, Page 3
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