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New Zealand Tablet, 17 June 1920, Page 37

CATALOGUE OF LOVELY THINGS. I would make a list against the evil days Of lovely things to hold in memory; First, I set down my lady’s lovely face-. For earth hath no such lovely thing as she And next I add, to bear her company, The great-eyed virgin star that morning brings ; Then the wild rose upon its little tree So runs my catalogue of lovely things. The enchanted dogwood, with its ivory trays; The water-lily in its sanctuary Of i ceded pools; and dew-drenched lilac sprays: For these, of all fair flowers, the fairest be. Next write I down the great name of the sea Lonely in greatness as the names of kings; Then the young moon that hath us all in fee— So xuns my catalogue of lovely things. Imperial sunsets that in crimson blaze , Along the hills, and, fairer still to me, The fireflies dancing in a netted maze Woven of twilight and tranquillity; Shakespere and Virgil—their high poesy. And a great ship splendid with snowy wings t voyaging on into Eternity— &o runs my catalogue of lovely things. . ENVOI. Prince, not the gold bars of thy treasury Not all thy jewelled sceptres, crowns, and rings. Are worth the honeycomb of the wild bee So runs my catalogue of lovely things Richaud Le Gallienne, in Harper’s Magazine.