VAGRANT VERSE
IN MEMORIAM—LEO: A YELLOW CAT.
If to your twilight land of dream—
Persephone, Persephone, Drifting with all your shadow host — Dim sunlight comes, with sudden gleam And you lift veiled eyes to see Slip past a little golden ghost, That wakes a sense of springing flowers, of nesting birds, and lambs new-born, Of spring astir in quickening hours, And young blades of Demeter’s corn; For joy of that sweet glimpse of sun, O Goddess of unnumbered dead,
Give one soft touch—if only one— To that uplifted, pleading head! Whisper some kindly word, to bless A wistful soul who understands' That life is but one long caress Of gentle words and gentle hands. —by Margaret Sherwood.
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Southland Times, Issue 20786, 29 May 1929, Page 4
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117VAGRANT VERSE Southland Times, Issue 20786, 29 May 1929, Page 4
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