THE SECOND BLOOMING.
When one is sweet and twenty, how far off forty seems! A queer, rerriote, and alien state, outside our youthful dreams! And then, long ere the dreams art done. Old Time has hastened by. . . . We’re speeding through the thirties, and forty’s drawing nigh. Strange, how the forty landmark stands out from all the rest! And stranger still how happily we pass the dread test 1 A few more crow’s feet, maybe. A few more greying hairs. . . . But when the heart comes smiling through, ’tis little forty cares! The dew of early springtime, the breath of summer rose, merge in the beauty and the light of autumn's afterglows. . . . Like joys more goldly gleaming, through dim grey skies of pain, the flowers we missed at twenty, at fort£ bloom again I —Helen Sevrez.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18056, 17 January 1927, Page 10
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134THE SECOND BLOOMING. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18056, 17 January 1927, Page 10
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