AFTER WINTER.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 2499, 30 August 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)

AFTER WINTER.

?>'ot yet the infant Spring Hath changed her russet gown for rol es of But lieth slumbering, Hid m the covert of a wood, un '-:en : Folded in shadows deep, Ethereal visions flit across her face in sleep. Like memories of (lie dead. \Vinf-t revives and fades, mid daw; or blue. And thrusts his snowy head Upon the landscape, whitening ail the view; With shrilly voice and thin. High singing o’er the downs the chilly breezes Here, by the sharp blast switched, The ruddy drifts about the road are swayed, - Dancing like sprites bewitched To whirling somersaults of light and shade ; The hollow forests ring. Shuddering with leafless mush- as the lank boughs swing. If non the cottage wall The .Jasmine lingers in a listless dream ; O'er). 1 the sparrows call, And twitter out the day in dolorous theme; Whistling a sober tune, .The ploughman drives his team the long dank afternoon. I n -.Vr tbe marshy fen The v. 1 proms gliosis worn travellers waylay ; In dull! and dike ami glen The brittle leaves of autumn waste away ; The snowdrop, bowed with grief, Brood* lik- an angel o'er its chastened loaf. Not sorrow, nor yet scorn, Nature wears on her face, but eaira distress ; Lite to a child new-born The year’s dim senses .'rope for consciousness ; Thiough all th- stilly wood Slirreth the soul of being, bursting blade and bud. Sant, j 1 1 : 1 11 th* violet !•’ sm B'-j;«-:ith the ledge. *?:i :•! on. h sheltered nook ; The primrose gild the gloom W -- • • 1!.- m- 1 : -• p.'i-n .»Vr fhe brook, At. I laughing waves shall swell O: golden daffodils in every mossy dMI. II isten. sweet birds of song. VYing o'er the waves, and fill the woods with Spring tanieth, slumbering long. She wake Mi not, bat in her dreuiu rejoices; Quiokc-n thou magic sod, Burst to a. s-v*. oi flowers, and greet the priests of God! The Ge. nh i!,\ Magazine.