VAGRANT VERSE
NATURE’S GENTLE DOINGS. Linger awhile upon some ■ bending planks That lean against a streamlet’s rushy banks, And watch intently nature’s gentle doings: How silent comes the water round that bend; Not the minutest whisper does it send To the o’erhanging sahows: blades of grass. Slowly across the chequer’d shadows pass. Why, you might read two sonnets, ere they reach To where the hurrying freshnesses aye preach A natural sermon o’er their pebbly beds; Where swarms of minnows show their little heads, Staying their wavy bodies ’gainst the streams, To taste the luxury of sunny beams Temper’d with coolness, —Keats.
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Southland Times, Issue 21429, 25 June 1931, Page 6
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101VAGRANT VERSE Southland Times, Issue 21429, 25 June 1931, Page 6
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