AUTUMN.

New Zealand Tablet, 7 April 1921, Page 9

AUTUMN.

The still, reluctant dying of the leaf t aH cast a shadow o’er the twilight time In rainbow-beauty and the wind shall rhyme the echo of a sad song’s trailing grief. transit ! Not with gorgeous pomp and blare Shall Beauty pass and Death, defiant, greetBut grey-robed winds shall come with muffled feet And weave sweet dreams upon the conscious air. \ And she shall pass,- as incense passes when Light windlets lift the flower-faces up And waft their soul to Heaven, while the cup Goes crumbling to its*earthly home again. With the red glory sinking in the west, She, calm and great, will glow and fade, and glide In passionate silence, to th’ unfathomed tide Of Heaven s glorious light, in dimness dressed. _ . Envoi. But memoried traces of her shall remain, ric T Tr ex ’ Minting a fair afterglow Dea^Th,? 011 th ® soul > th at she ma y know . Lleatn s but a rainbow-archway in Life’s fane —Mary Mongey, in Studies.