One Word
'Write me an epic, the v.arrior «>»i l-» * "Victory, valour tid'd glory wed,' * Pri.hee. a bail id,’ egclaiuie 1 all-' K-i Cit ‘ Iho-.vess, advemur, • and faith'unite > * An ode to freed > tt-o p itri it cri -d ‘Liberty won an I wrong d fled,’ *Gdve me a dr.ma ' the seh ,lar aske l ‘The inner world in the outer masked.' ‘ Frame mo a sonnet,’ the artist prayed ‘ Bower and passion in harmony played.' * Sing me a lyric,’ the maiden sighed * A lark-note waking the morning aid:.’ •Nay all too long,’ said the busy age, * Write me a line instead of a page.’ The swift years spoke, the poet heard, ‘ Your poem write ip a single word.’ He looked in tho maiden’s glowing eye-», A. moment glauoe.l at. the slarlit skies ; From the lights below to tho lights above, An l wiote tlie one-word poem—Love. —Wallace B luck, in Black wood's Magazine
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 934, 24 January 1890, Page 4
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152One Word New Zealand Mail, Issue 934, 24 January 1890, Page 4
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