FORTUNE'S SONG
.Fortune' sang a golden song ... ' '.' p -' Neath my iatticed pane, When the world lay bleak and gray, ■ Drenched with* winter rain: ,y Swift I raised my eager eyes,- dastzled , with desire, . ' ' Poverty sat smiling there, close beside 7 my fire! . , ■ * \ , -."jl[v ■ Beckoned me with sun-browned hand Led ,n*te to the door, Where a single star, afar - ; '.:.!■.. Streamed the moorland o'efe-f Sweeter,, clearer, Fortune's song, breath- . ed \ from golden . lute ; -'-■. -•;' Poverty beside me smiled, but : his lips ... were mute. Fared we fast,, and fared we far, Down the Open Ways, , Met the Spring a- wandering,.,. : Through the smoke-sweet haaje: Drank from ' moorland bittern's cup... couched with dappled fawn ; " q * f Poverty, amid fern, sang at each new dawn. • ' '•*'' '*' : ' Naught wo recked of jewelled pomp, Arras-prisoned' hall; ' ; | Peasant's fire and lonely byre ! Heard, bur brother-call: ■ ' '/ •-■ ■-. - ',■■ ...,-, ';. Down .'the— widespread^- -Wander^TraiU/ ' {Poverty sits-J^y my.- fire,yßmuihg com-: I , radewise. " '' "\ ' ... -,'._, : XM- "Mk Qprti;, m Ainalei's Magazine, ..'
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12772, 25 May 1912, Page 3 (Supplement)
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152FORTUNE'S SONG Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12772, 25 May 1912, Page 3 (Supplement)
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