VAGRANT VERSE
THE ORETI ANTHOLOGY. 441.—Epigrams. (Written for the Southland Times.) I.—Little Garden. Little garden, where daisies only grew, Tears have fallen in the wide round world for you; Because despite your humbleness and calm, You brought to lonely hearts a failless balm. 2.—Roses. Roses have flaunted colours to the mighty, Roses with queenly heads, and trailing skirts of gold, And I have known poor men who rose to purple And fine linen, long long before they really had grown old. 3. —Forsaken. These common plants are torn out from, the roots, They die before the sun, So that which should have nurtured, wildly loots, And what is worthiest is thus undone. 4. —Tire Borer. No matter how the priceless stone you carve, Where there is dust, no tiniest worm will starve. Invercargill, March 12, 1932. 1 —Southerner.
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Southland Times, Issue 21652, 14 March 1932, Page 4
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138VAGRANT VERSE Southland Times, Issue 21652, 14 March 1932, Page 4
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