SPRING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 14013, 18 September 1909, Page 6

SPRING.

(Chorus from "Atalanta.") . Come with bowß bent and with emptying

of quivers, # •• •.* Maiden most perfect, lady of light, With a noise of winds and many nvers, With a clamour of waters and with might ; , , Bind on thy sandals, O thou most fleet, - , Over the splendour and speed ot thy feet ; For the faint east quickens, the wan

west shivers, Round the feet of the day and the feet of the night. For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the seasons of snows and sins ; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remember'd is grief forgotten,' And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, Ami in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins. — Algernon Charles Swinburne.