A Quiet Corner
STRANGE WARES
Btrangd wares are handled on the wharves of sleep; Shadows of shadows pass, and many v a light Flashes a signal-fire across the night. Barges depart whoso voiceless steersmen keep Their way without a star upon the deep; And from lost ships, homing with ghostly crews, Come cries of incommunicable news, .While cargoes pile the piers—a moon—.white heap—- # Budgets of dream —dust, merchandise of song, Wreckage of hope and packs of ancient wrong; JNepenthes gathered from a secret strapd, il'ardels of heart-ache, burdens of old '! sins, iLuggago sent down from dim ancestral inns, And bales of fantasy from No Man's Land, Edwin Markham 1
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21520, 17 June 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)
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109A Quiet Corner New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21520, 17 June 1933, Page 6 (Supplement)
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