A Quiet Corner
REVELATION They walked together, silently In a silver hush of stars. . . . Dripping leaves, rain-washed and glistening. Clouds tumbled like white ships and drifts of foam. O rapturous night! Who scarce would dare _To breathe and break the hushed enchantment * _ » Of that hour. . . to shatter with a sigh The rapt- and magic stillness. . . There was To-morrow in her face. and Yesterday . . . and something of Forever Caught in that inexplicable and subtle smile; • Humanity . . . and God ... a world of tangled dreams, A million things unpaid and inarticulate, Half trembling into being. The clouds swift-moving touched the trees, the moon — * I know a chap," he said " who's keeping pigs this year, there's money in it! " . . . . She flinched . . . and the grave pageant of the Night passed on! Joyce Millar, "Romuera.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21698, 13 January 1934, Page 6 (Supplement)
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129A Quiet Corner New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21698, 13 January 1934, Page 6 (Supplement)
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