DIONYSIA.

New Zealand Tablet, 29 April 1920, Page 37

DIONYSIA.

I In the rich wine-land ruddy with the fall,. § Where churches? stand with slender towers on- fire 1 With fretted earveh work Off strange desire ,-.-■;.? v'?'| I : I Above the steep towns, 'clustered? high over '""' all, : " * 1 | Bacchus revisiting" the land of 'the gods, "-— -~-~~| | Deserting; Hellas : and her vales of love ? " | I To scan these new strange regions; where the dove.,^ll . Was : ; said to reign, after strange periods ' .•'- * 1 Of ruin and disaster, came at eve "'s'' " "''*"''?- '-*'"" l .* i^ .g 1 All floral '-. with warm " fires and" hung"'with green- - v 1 Out of the golden west to some demesne- , - ,?V.---"- I Where dancers trampled the vats and loth to leavs- "'■ I Sprang nude amid the throng, ' who,- ' mouths agape, 1 Watched him beneath red" feet tread out ' the grape; Q i —Wilfred Childe, in the 'New iWitness., v,.,~-J