VAGRANT VERSE
THE ORETI ANTHOLOGY. 608.—AURANS. (Written for the Southland Times.) You did the unguessed thing, the unthought deed, Startled a world with glamour and romance, Your perfect rose bloomed from a wayside weed, , hl And all the time you took a chance with chance. . Hero in warfare, poet of desert ways, English and Arab, lead your royal chiefs, ' Your monumental epic glows wtJi praise, , Of other men, their prowess their beliefs! And when the fight was spent, a past concern, You changed yourself to plain man once again Threw off your honours won, so bravely firm, Work and the commonplace was to attain. Yet through it all a fatal imp of speed Sought you like a disease, or crime, or —Southerner. Invercargill, June 4, 1935.
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Southland Times, Issue 25306, 8 June 1935, Page 4
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126VAGRANT VERSE Southland Times, Issue 25306, 8 June 1935, Page 4
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