"THE WITCHING HOUR."

Otago Witness, Issue 2454, 27 March 1901, Page 64

"THE WITCHING HOUR."

'Twas the soft grey of twilight, and the quiet peace of evening With sweetest of balm soothed the unrest of the day; Aid the mountain's bold outlines were softened by shadow, While the plains at theii feet slept in slumber profound. 'Twixt two bush-crowned hill-tops, a wandering sunbeam Flashed 'thwart the quiet valley its gleams of bright gold To bridge' for the late-hngeiing sprites of the sunshine O'er the fast-darkening foicst a way to thenhome. 'Twas gone, and soon +he tiernV.ir>g strrs peeped tim dly beneath The sheJt'nng robes of Night, who straightway blazed with gerrs, And the nch jewel of the fcouthera Cross was set In radiant" splendour in her soft, clusky Lair While o'er the heavens, in liquid train, was flung the Milky Way, Upheld by misty nebulas and ficiy lights Dissolved in distance — a glowing witnc-* of the troth Of giacious Night to the tender Spun ol the hour. Hark' Thiough balmy air, in solemn chant, and sweet with haunting pain, Scunding through echoing co.:=, the Musjl of the Spheios Rang out the buiLil «yiiiphu..y, set i/i-wei-d lefiam, As planets touched the strnigc of Hod's grout instrument, Whose chords are fetielchec 1 fioin =tai to star across the finnan Att lined by ilastei-haud, and tiembhng to the passage Of the worlds ir> ordained cj cle=:— heaid faint m stillness By the pure in herrt slow nairj;, clow falling,. The sailing moo a her silver crescent now displayed to add Supeifluous beauty to the entiaiicing scene, which filled Th heart with joy of liMi.g, and a, quickened sen=e Of his good handiwoik, 'fore which the soul is dumb. — HIRBERT GRAHAM. Maon Hi 1 1. Dunedin. March 14.

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