BRIDAL BIRCH.
pn angel wings of light Past man's devising, In the mystic wood arising. A silver spirit gleams With silverjc-dreams— Her argent body bright, Shimmering fn night— In the dewy moonlight fair, With streaming hair. And cool and lustrous body bare. So in the dark and dew When Adam came to woo. Might Eve have stood, In the starry wood. In Eden’s odorous solitude. Bridal and beautiful, A chalice with love’s cordial brimming full. Trembling all over, Waiting her lover. Waiting some sweetheart now My birch tree stands. With delicate stars burning about her brow ; With vestal silvery hands And wild still hair alight. Her argent body bright. Faintly in the far wood gleaming, A virgin of rapture dreaming. Her heart’s flower opening wide, A spirit and a bride. Trembling with joyous power. Knowing love’s hour. —Archibald Rutledge, in Scribner’s.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3881, 31 July 1928, Page 72
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141BRIDAL BIRCH. Otago Witness, Issue 3881, 31 July 1928, Page 72
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