Verse For To-day
Thou still unravished bride of quietness! Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: ‘ What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals,, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loath? What mad pursuit?. .What struggle to escape? ..... ... . . ... What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? From “ Ode on a Grecian Urn,” by John Keats, 1795-1821.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27271, 23 December 1949, Page 1
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84Verse For To-day Otago Daily Times, Issue 27271, 23 December 1949, Page 1
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