VAGRANT VERSE
HERE BENDS THE ROAD. Here bends the road around a mountain With laurels twined in myrtles like « hedge; Beneath the cliff, in comes the ocean tide Ana breaks in billows on a rocky ledge. A sulphur-yellow creecent sweeps the town Around the bay, as blue as indigo; Vesuvius, smoking, lifts a cone of browi, Above the terraced villas strewn below Here golden-globuled oranges swing low, With breath as sweet aa sons of Pomegranate blossoms in vermilion glow. And mottled pansies open argue eyes A weeping willow overhangs the way, A eucalyptus rears toward the sky; Pears, over ripe, slow falling day by day, In scattered red and yellow clusters lie, Walter Malonau c
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Southland Times, Issue 19224, 14 May 1921, Page 4
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115VAGRANT VERSE Southland Times, Issue 19224, 14 May 1921, Page 4
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