LACQUER LANDSCAPE.
It is late afternoon. In the copper light to the west a snowy cone Looks sharp as silver, And dim bronze wings are moving slowly eastward.
Nearer, brown-gold hills are sleeping, ■While close at hand Seven pines lift broad umbrellas Over black river water.
Bare-masted shallops doze at a bridge of bamboo canes. On the bridge, on the river, under the trees, not a soul to be seen; But an hour from now, at sundown, naked fishers will come To make ready their boats for the sea. —Charles Ballard, in Japm.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 72
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93LACQUER LANDSCAPE. Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 72
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