FAINT HEART, COLD HEART.
Faint heart, cold heart, Your chords are out of tune. Ere March is told you'ro shivering cold; You'll scarcely weathei June. Your only prayer an empty lair By sunless tide and deep, Where roiled in black the world's wrack May shiver into sleep. Strong heart, warm heart; What?, You've weathered Juno! : Though deadest leaves about your eaves , Havo swirled a winter rune. [ The .mothering earth is near the birth} i The scabbard of the sun \ Is thinning fast across the yast— * The aftermath's begun. i Strong heart, warm heart; Lone lord of Fate — !. You sit i' the sun when all is donsj ; The proud world may wait. \ Though pebble-grey it ran. away, ; The false fairy gold ; Your mine is out where the warriors shout Over the waking wold. JESSIE MACKAY. July 1899.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2368, 20 July 1899, Page 49
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136FAINT HEART, COLD HEART. Otago Witness, Issue 2368, 20 July 1899, Page 49
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