“FANTASY OF GOLD”
One night in reverie I saw A fantasy of gold, A strange disordered cavalcade Its tale unfold. Enthralled I watched each changing scene, Appear and pass away Like a desert mirage On a summer’s day. Stood a golden calf in a wilderness Beneath an Eastern sky, At whose feet a multitude Did the Living God decry. An edifice, magnificent Ornate with jewels, stood, But Solomon’s gjory turned to dust As Fate ordained it should. In an Inca City Red carnage filled the sky Lust for gold bred treachery, A proud race had to die.
A stately galleon appeared Riding a silver sea But it fell, as gold-mad pirates Struck with fiendish glee. -Upon an icy goldfield Men dug in haste all day Searching for the glittering thing At night they flung away. Slowly as upon a stage The cavalcade went by A tale of Gold and Greed Transposed on starlight sky But as I watched in solitude Awed by each changing scene A flood of thoughts came rushing As tho’ to intervene. I saw the gold of a sunset, The wealth of a childish smile The riches of a kindly act A friend on Life’s long mile. Then came the Gold of a Sacrifice On a hill where crosses stood The Golden Light of Eternal Love These golden things were good. W. R. WHITESIDE.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 68, 18 August 1947, Page 4
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