VAGRANT VERSE
AT CAERNARVON CASTLE. (For Lewis Casson.) What shadows walk among these . fretted walls Here on the western front of Britain’s isle, Where still a rumour of contention falls From presences that once a little while Their quarrels played beyond the Severn bed, _ When kings and princes kept an English state “Against Glendower with his Cambrian dead From nfttive Snowdon beating at the gate. The pigeons nest among oblivion, And on the grass are April’s daffodils, The light of spring is fugitive upon The tozvers between the waters and the hills, While we a moment pause to live again With walking shadows of heroic men. JOHN DRINKWATER.—in The Observer, (London).
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Southland Times, Issue 25302, 4 June 1935, Page 6
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111VAGRANT VERSE Southland Times, Issue 25302, 4 June 1935, Page 6
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