Verse for To-day
The king’s road is a troublous summons, calling day and day, But my feet take the cocksfoot track. the easy, vagrant way; Beside the restless acres, and the gold of noisy gorse, The ripple lures its lover down the dazzle of its course. Afoot, the wash of waders, and aloft the haze-veiled blue, — The heart it needeth nothing so the cast fall clean and true. O carol of the running reed, O flash of mottled back! And who will take the king’s white road, and who the cocksfoot track? From “A Leaf From a Fly-Book,” by Seaforth Mackenzie, born Timaru, 1883.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27038, 24 March 1949, Page 1
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104Verse for To-day Otago Daily Times, Issue 27038, 24 March 1949, Page 1
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