THE QUIET CORNER
WHITE WINGS
While wings on twilight's sea— Afar the quiet city Glimmers as a dream Unrealised, yet not entirely free From .life's half-muted symphony. Grey wings on night's dark breast—- ' The wind of evening lifts ■ Across the harbour stream ■ Goblin hillocks, arrow-crest, And nowhere . . . nowhere is there rest. Silver wings dipped to the night— As beyond North Head the full moon rode A goddess, amber-gowned, whose radiant light Lacquered a glittering wake where the dark sea flowed In silken silence from the moon-washed stern. White wings beating for the dusky west—j Yearning for ever on the ageless quest. j My heart is stilled with beauty, statue-cold, But silver wings are seeking rarer gold . . . Sail oh, O Ship of Dreams, this night shall be A tinging memory in the heart of me I —Cwcnyth Evans.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22356, 29 February 1936, Page 6 (Supplement)
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137THE QUIET CORNER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22356, 29 February 1936, Page 6 (Supplement)
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