A Quiet Corner
TWILIGHT UNTO DAWN Flame in the deepening skies Of mist-hung eve, Dusk o'er ten thousand homes Where life shuttles weave; Fires of day far spent • . Flicker and die, • . Star of the tremulous hour Leans in the sky; Till one by one the winking lamps of heaven Are lit, and pale the steady lights of earth; The smoke of homely fires wreaths the cit.v To mi;)gle with the mists of unknown birth;. Dark o'er/the country's peace Of slumbering hills, Silent the drowsing herds In white-swathed fields; •And over dreaming city and countryside The mystic veil of night draws lower, till The lan'ps of heaven alone burn —till the dawn „ Startles a laggard star where night • dings still. - ■—Gwenyth Evans.' • Auckland. >
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21876, 11 August 1934, Page 6 (Supplement)
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122A Quiet Corner New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21876, 11 August 1934, Page 6 (Supplement)
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