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Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14482, 1 July 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

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THE LOTER. !W«w «n the women of the world io oome And droop their languorous hair about my heart # They could not liold it in those hots so fine: And pleading with lips lyrical or dumb, Alba howsoever an alluring art, Tkev could not win the lasses that are thine. If Helen cam©, her white limba hung with gold, And Deirdre with dim visionary eyes. And Grajiia, flame-haired, fiery with command: If Hero came —reluctant once of old— And she who all too lons with Borneo lies. And she who led Dante heavenward by the hand. They could not make me fain of their fair lips, Nor hire me to the languor of warm breasts With any soft compulsion of white arms; Asd delicate dim touch of finger tips And fire that flames from eyes and fire that rests Would lcare me cold and lose the . name of charms. Nay, Solomon's Love and Anthony's Desire, Heloise, and frail Franceses and their queen, Immortal Aphrodite, whom I praise, And all her passionate daughters vetned with fire, Might pass like old bent'hags, for I have seen Beauty within thy beauty for all days. ~-Shaenm O. Shed, in tive "Fornm." THB WIND CALLING AT NIGHT. .When .the wind comes withering, I am wild to go; Where the wind! will take me I do not ask to know, Out across the moorland or through the murky town; But when the wind, is waking, I cannot lie down. Clouds are rushine over, tall-towerinc, fast, Ifcey take me up and wrap me in their mantles from the blast. 2«e diark water glimmer* with a t drowned star below, Aaj) where, the clouds will bear me I : . ca» act.aa they go. Ifi tall sky-cathedrals with the moon __ for alter-light, .Where deep like an organ the sea sings out of sight, Tfootxgn dfusky cloud-cioisterß where a Prsaeno® walks unseen, W&en the wind wakes and wuthers, often have I been. Shut who will their windows, and let> fheir lamps be lit, Warm and cheery be they es by the fir© tchey sit: But the wind and the moonlight are awake above the town 'And when the wind is calling I cannot Be down, • »»-Dora Owen, in the ''Westminster Ctazette." \ 1