THE BLUE DANUBE.
She stood there —puzzled—hesitant —
before The little music shop. What sound was
this That dared to mock her clever artifice, And swept—strange beauty! —through
the open door? She could not understand this subtle thing— Who thought herself so altogether wise. Her flippant smile had fled —her hard
young eyes Grew curiously warm and wondering.
Oh, dream of love, surging across
the long, Long years to touch illimitable heights! Starlight and dew of lost Vienna nights. Blent with the pulse of an eternal song! The music ceased. . . . Her laugh was
swift and sure — But swifter still the tears that blinded
her! —Catherine Parmenter, in the Herald Tribune Magazine.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3994, 30 September 1930, Page 63
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110THE BLUE DANUBE. Otago Witness, Issue 3994, 30 September 1930, Page 63
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