VAGRANT VERSE
THE ORETI ANTHOLOGY. 395. —Aesop. (Written for the Southland Times.) Aesop, the ancients say, was born a slave, So Valesquez who wished to paint him well, For model called a beggar from the street, And placed on him an immemorial spell. But did that painter genius of Madrid Know Aesop still was master of his hand, And added to his tales, unguessed, unbid, Another fable for another land. Because the portrait is a work alone Which tells of Valesquez all, of Aesop nought; So wise men place inscriptions upon stone, But even fools detect the image sought. 396. —Niobe. Niobe was a woman changed to stone, But Praxiteles, saddened at the sight, Carved face and limb and torso with delight, And thus she won back beauty not her own. 397.—Praxiteles. Let me have choice of what is best of all, Then I shall name white marble—it will stand Untarished by all change on sea and land, It will remain whatever else shall fall. Southerner. Invercargill, June 21, 1931,
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Southland Times, Issue 21427, 23 June 1931, Page 6
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170VAGRANT VERSE Southland Times, Issue 21427, 23 June 1931, Page 6
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