silent air, its spiral stair — mortal's prayer ; with the flowers of leaf is lost ; descending, is caught and bound silver feet can touch the ground : is the air that lies, this morn, Brer the snow-cold fields forlorn, as though Italy's heaven smiled In the face of some bleak Norwegian wild ; And the heart in me sings— l know not why — 'Tis Winter on earth, but June in the sky 1 June in the sky ! Ah, now I can see The souls of roses about to be, In gardens of heaven beckoning me, Roses red-lipped, and roses pale, Fanned by the tremulous ether gale ; Some of them climbing a window-ledge, Some of them peering from way-side hedge, As yonder, adrift on the aery stream, Love drives his plumed and filleted team ; The Angel of Summer aloft I see, And the souls of roses about to be 1 And the heart in me sings— the heart knows why— 'Tis Winter on earth, but June in the sky!
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1944, 20 December 1884, Page 4 (Supplement)
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