Verse For To-day
The blackbird’s song is lively , joy, The thrush’s note sharp tears; The nightingale’s a bitter ecstasy, And whoso hears -- - Forgets not, though he never hear The nightingale again A whispering edge of shadowy wood And evening rain, And the sky’s full again with stars Halted in their great march, And dark ivinds fold their wings , and night’s High luminous arch Echoes again, again, again, again, Infinitely on and on; And all the world’s a dream until The dream is gone. > From “ The Nightingale’s Song.” by John Freeman, 1880-1929. [Rich and Cowan Ltd.]
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27274, 28 December 1949, Page 1
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95Verse For To-day Otago Daily Times, Issue 27274, 28 December 1949, Page 1
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