In a Chinese Valley (SUMMER NOON)
The steaming fields and heated orchards shine In summer’s sun. as the caravan’s slow line Of workers turns to village walls again, To man’s retreat upon an ancient Chinese plain. Noon throws a golden clearness on the hills, A mood more myßtic than the dawn or night now fills The world; as fires ascend through crystal space, The homes of men, and all this human place, Are set in the wider harmony of clear day; And valley workers, pausing, sense the play Of forces, in this apex of the sun, that lie Above the plow and hills, beyond the sacred sky. —Robert Merrill Bartlett,
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6859, 14 March 1929, Page 11
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110In a Chinese Valley (SUMMER NOON) Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6859, 14 March 1929, Page 11
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