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A winter afternoon and, suddenly spun, A lambent miracle of the watery sun: At the lane’s mouth a glory waa unrolled. At the lane’s end a pool of burning gold. . . . With these two shimmering lovelinesses seen, Who could have eyes for all the mud between? Shall it be so with life—shall it be so? In gold the road begins: this much we knew! And, though it fades into these middle years So deeply rutted and so heavy with tears, Yet, if in that sheer dazzle of gold it ends, Shall not these two things make, for all, amends? —V. H. FRIEDLAENDER, in “ Country Life.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18088, 23 February 1927, Page 10
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105SIMILE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18088, 23 February 1927, Page 10
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