THE APPLE TREE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13480, 3 July 1907, Page 9

THE APPLE TREE.

c What have you said where the light wind stirs, Apple tree laden with snow of bloom? 0 Through the shaken silver and green of firs ill What are you saying in wizard gloom? II will not hear that Iter brow was white, I And her cheek rose'-hued—that she dawned i on me 11 jAy you dawn in the woodland upon my e sight: e For my heart is broken, 0 Druid tree. e 'l heard the yellow Flag by the pool , 1 Say "Thus she carried her golden head;" ' [But, the Nenuphar moaned in the waters cool v l "I cradled your loved one cold and dead." el The Meadowsweet breathed from the moonuj pale grass n i "A dream, a perfume, a foam was she;" ' | Bat the Thyme on her grave was a sigh, '■! alas! -: Prom the gate of Tears and ,of Memory. a The Hellebore, with pale-emerald bells, ~! The Nightshade flame in a purple round, 'Whose poison lurks in their crystal cells, "i Spake. "We are as Death in a love-wreath s! bound." '■The Sunflower drooped in an autumn mist J With heavy fringes of burning gold, '"The Aster carved in pure amethyst, 0 ; 'Hie Hose dispetalled on moss and mould; . : These seemed as ore of a delved mine r ! And rainbow jewels that had no worth; 1 Tliev could not buy mo a. thing dirin«. ; One Hour with Her on the old brown -J Earth. ' •'But the Spring is here and the wild birds u brood. d| 0 gnarled Apple-tree, what have yon said— .'. That in olden days from theapple wood Crosses were mads for the lowly dead. " Death-coffers too from your sturdy bark? :ll Ah I one word yet— your blossoms , | gleam '(White coronals sprung from the cold and e \ dark, 1 ; A foam from the Sea by the Shores of I'j Dream) imTo whisper, where, in Despair I grope, j j Of the fairest Promise in all (lie world; I Yes, speak to me of the World's Great Hope, "! O drift of petals and bails unfurled. ALICE IiDWAiiDEs, iii Westminster Gazette.