VERSES OLD AND NEW.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 924, 17 September 1910, Page 9

VERSES OLD AND NEW.

;:: ' TIIE wind. . The little wind a gossip is, '■ . .: ■ ■ ■Her, skirts are full of mysteries, . ; ; She' lingered ;by my casement and she whispered. to the roR% And all the silly butterflies Are trying .to look old and wise, .. And blink, their goggle eyes at me like self-admiring beaux! V 1 Tho little .wind a wanton is, . She has no sense of decencies, :'.>:Bhe .-never'keeps/a secret, -but tells everything she knows. ' . She pauses to '.caress yon, ... Her.littlo, fingers press y6u,. '. . ' - And'when , she's learned your .secret she tells it ns she ■ goes. • Tliel little'.wind '.a-traitor -.is,;-.'. i :. 0;. yield not- to her witcheries! But keep your heart well . hidden . when you feel' her coming hear. \ She is like velvet on your face, . ..Her. kisses; have a piercing grace, y' A And-tlien' she runs and 'tells '.the, - birds what you have let her hear. . y ; y y; Tho little wind a gossip' is/ _ - ■ . • V Her skirts are'full fof.'mysteries,-, . ' .She' stopped and- kissed., me oil : :and learned what I hold 'dear. :' ■ ' . And all the birds arc singing it, . } . And all tho; bees . are bringing it, '■y ■ And in the 'he-art 'of; every flower;,; it's; .■ y 'blooming, plain and : clear!: r y : ;,r-Loriise ■ Driscoll, in ."The 'Independent.''

WANDERERS. y Eweet is thehighroad when -.the;skylarks ■■ ; - f call,y ./.■'//yy/zy^/^'^",. 1 ;- 1 , ;?• V When. we. and Love go. rambling through: ,' the.land, . . /. //' ■ \ . .But . shall, wo still walk gaily, hand in \/ '' hand, '. ' ';; '' '. ;' !A.t. tho road's turning' and tie twilight's fall? 1 .: !Theri ■ darknessshall divide us like; a wall, k ' And uncouth evil l nightbird3 flap. tlipir V:',wings;';y.-'.v ■;.'■"•■'/'/: V -;■'/;:; . The solitude of all created things • iWill.f creep upon us .. shuddering . like 'a' '-../• . pall.-' . ''■ . .;;; {This is the knowledge I liavo wrung from pain.: ; - 57c,' yea, all Uovers,. rare 1 not; one, ; .but •' / ' . twain, * ; / y Each by strange wisps to strange •. '. . abysses drawn;. '-./v.-'V;.. 1 . But/through the 'black' immensity ■■'/of' night, < "{■drVs'v.litQe' lantern,.like a glowworm's,. bright, <: . ■ May lead our steps to some stupendous : ,y y dawn/v;/V; ; ':'/. ;■ i '; VGeorge. S. Viercck) ■in .'"The Forum'.".. ;/ : v-- :/- /;. ./:'/. . AT A CLOSED DOOR. y ly'dreamiid'T,.Journeyed' all-;the/ night.yj. v. - Across great mountains piled with snow; ; 'And in the dawn's. Jiret.Vwaldng ■ light.'; .Came to . the house :1 used to know. Sit;'.was/the: time'; of later spring,'Vy'.'i* >,■/:: -WMi; aljthe. I 'purple, .wind-flowers'' dyed; *.y '.Those : quiet fields with,.-blossoming;?; v.: :' ! X.-; And;' flushed, ''anew,/thVpMn';hill-side.;.''V

, 'And in.' tho garden's sheltered ways:; I wandered, and. the lilies there .; , Grew tall'and white as in past days .' v Grewutall and white, and -very fair. --, I saw the city' set withiii ■ . . ; ■ v Its. cup filled full of silver mist, : • . -The; : white:. streets' T ihad/wandered-; in,:; .The far faint hills of amethyst. 'I saw..the sharp black cypresses, ... ' Things of such fragile' shadowing ' And set . within the 'ring-'Of:; trees; :/;. :■ j .'The /stones that gave you 6helter.k.i./ingiyy r; ';;; ■ :

'sCho' dull soft falling -of tho_ rain ; Drencliod ..the palo . lilies as •of yore. . . . And I—l . boat my hands in vain . ; ; ■;]On : - tha,t V.- fast-sealesi ';and ; : ;shuttered. . door. . . , ';."^;:'•'^.'^lsabel : <'- Gazette."- .. ■■ r'%> : v..'-:; •: ...' I'.-'J.-.'Kv; -1--':