‘COMMON’ THINGS.
One autumn day, beside a mossy brook, I saw a bird with plumage exquisite—’Twas crimson flecked with gold—a jewel fit To flash in summer skies ; in the same nook A glittering gossamer of diamonds shook. With silent step I moved unseen to sit And watch—when 10, a change ! the sun but lit A dying leaf, ’mid pathways spiders took. Sayest thou, 1 All things are so, when better seen The glory dies—dank leaves and webs remain ?’ Nay, read from left to right, it then shall mean, Nothing so common but it may attain Transfiguration, if it bear the keen Calm light of heaven—then wherefore my disdain ?’
A. V. Hall.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XXII, 30 May 1896, Page 644
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111‘COMMON’ THINGS. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XXII, 30 May 1896, Page 644
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