GROUND MIST— AND AFTERWARD.
; Thos3 rnonstroiis shapes, mass upon mass, acW anced . Amid the wan, grey mist, encircling them In clicging, weird, fantastic fingers; like The se i kelp, clutching at the leaping tide, Only that these seemed motionless, inert. The learmost larger TDtilked than those before ; They scorned to tread upon the ground beneath, Or mother earth, refused their footsteps. JN'ow, As creatures of another planet, come To sec the things of earth, with, wond'ring eyes, Their massive heads upraised, and pilently, They gaze iipon him. As they look, the sky With crimson red doth blush that they should sea Tins puny human : then, in frantic haste, , Each lengthening finger desperately strives Backyard, from, earth to heaven, to Irarry them. & In va'ti the effort — upward leaps the sun, From out the cuived margin of the hill; All Npture springs to life — and, lo ! Some score of kine, upon the meadow iea, In mild surprise, so early visited. March 1898 ; — Cablos.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2303, 21 April 1898, Page 41
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161GROUND MIST—AND AFTERWARD. Otago Witness, Issue 2303, 21 April 1898, Page 41
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