A SONNET.
Earth lies beneath the sway of dreary Night; I O'er vale and hill black gloom and darkness spread ; The bleating flocks have sought their grassy bed, To await in. sleep the morning's welcome light. The forests, onre in Helion's livery dight, Have now that glorious mantle wholly shed, And 'neath a black and gloomy mantle dread Have hidden away their ancient splendour | bright. j But soon again shall come th' expected dawn, To drive Night's grisly demons whence they came; To lift from off the earth that hideous pall, S Proclaiming Daxkness's Reign of Terror gone. Then, gilded with the fair Aurora's flame, Th© Day shall rise once more at Nature's . call. —Romeo. Mosgiel, March 24, 1906.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2721, 9 May 1906, Page 62
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