VAGRANT VERSE
RAIN FOREST. (Zambesi Falls.) Alwavs the rain, always the warm rain ’ falls Upon those shadowy trees, those giant ferns. As often as the tropic sun returns The forest builds again its rainbow’ walls. Always the rain, always the mist that palls The hurtling river where it roars and churns Its lordly way beneath the ledge it spurns, Leaping and shouting with exultant calls. Zambesi rain! Zambesi rainbows! How You dance your way along that jungle floor Or swim through trembling waves of patterned light! A hundred rainbows clinging to each bough Laugh as another hundred laughed before. Relentless comes the creeping jungle night. —Ethel Louise Knox, t
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Southland Times, Issue 21274, 20 December 1930, Page 6
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109VAGRANT VERSE Southland Times, Issue 21274, 20 December 1930, Page 6
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