FROM "ON THE DOWNS."
Wide-eyed our childhood roamed the world Knee-deep hi blowing .grass, And watched the white clouds crisply curled Above the mounttein-piass. Here, weary of the roaring town A-while may I return. And while tJro west wind 1 roams the; down Lie still, lie still and leant: Here are green leagues of murmuring wheat. With blue skie> overhead, And, all around, the winds are sweet With. May-blossom, white and red. Once more the children throng the lanes, Themselves like flowers, to weave j Their garlands and their daisy-chains And listen and believe The tale of Onoe-upon-a^time, And hear the Long-ago And Happy-ever-after chime Because it must be so. —Alfred Noyes.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11509, 4 October 1915, Page 4
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112FROM "ON THE DOWNS." Star (Christchurch), Issue 11509, 4 October 1915, Page 4
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