VAGRANT VERSE
THE ORETI ANTHOLOGY. 211.—Silence. (Written for (he Southland Times.) Silence is like dream-ways Forgotten with the day, It has its place on mountain peaks From man so far away. It broods on desert wastes Where noiseless sand is spread, Like bloomless boughs of thought Great words unsung, unsaid. But I would have the peal Of sweet bells in a tower, And votive voices which can feel The joy of hour and hour. And I would have fine words Uttered in name of Truth, For these are brave and strong, And these are charmed with youth. They are like steel to build A castle from the earth; With every love fulfilled, And Beauty with new birth. —Southerner. Invercargill, May 11, 1929.
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Southland Times, Issue 20772, 13 May 1929, Page 4
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122VAGRANT VERSE Southland Times, Issue 20772, 13 May 1929, Page 4
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