Horses of the Wind.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 26, 29 June 1907, Page 44

Horses of the Wind.

Down the rainy roof-top, up the silver street. Horses of the morning wind gallop far and Sees. Over mist and tree-top, down the break of day. Coursers of the cokl-breathed wind swing me on your way. Light you whinnied at the gabling, and afar I'd ireanse-.d your stabling— Heard you stamping in your stabling on the heaven's crystal floor, Dreame-i your waiting in the airy days of ke-!oeke.i January. Through clear nights in February, past the pole-star lantern's door.

Gaßap pout the buary Hyada. aud ttfl ißOvj clustered Pleiads, ttver cvmimou. over opea. orer mudflung road and plain. Ooud-winged horses, with your streaming manes and dappled fetlocks steaming. Beautiful beyond my dreaming, down your yearly course again.

Over highway, over byeway. every way of yours is my way. Fog-sasoked root, and dripping alley, and the trail tbe wild duck cries. Ragged mist and splashing byway, pla-h--ing eaves and flooded highway. Broken shore and full-flushed valley, and the hundred hurdled skies.

GaHop. gallop swifter to me. thrill tha strength of daybreak through me. Twelve great winds of opea heaven, in your splendour fleet and free. Winds above all pride and scorsizig. all self-shame and self-adorning. As the naked stars of morning singing through the l«re-branehe,i tree. —Edith Wyatt, in “Harper's.”