Vision

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12247, 19 September 1925, Page 12

Vision

When ihe vision is upon me I, that have known only these green hills, •And the wet bush tracks, and the lonely country Toads .... See, in the spare grey light of another day, Waoes of a sea that is only a name to me, Fretting against a cliff where it never stills. Brittle, and green, and cold. A stony way 1 see, and a Woman there with a red mouth fair And a chain of gold about her slender neck, (1 have only known gold on a kowhai flow’r) Quiet she is and still by the clashing sea-, Her red-gold hair is heavy about her there, (My hair is black and close-cropped short and high,) ; And in some strange way, she that is there is 11 When the visiqn is upon me Shaking, 1 see the splendour in the eyes Of the woman that is 1, and cry aloud, “Cha till!” I cry, “Cha till!” an unknown tongue 1, who have known only red day’s rise Upon this fresh young land, seen sun and cloud Within one little sky, cry out, ‘‘Cha tilll” When the vision is upon me. {’’Cha till"—Gaelic, ”1 return.”) ISHBEL MORGAN. Kaitieke, via Raurimu. •