Friendship
“New lamps for old” ... a fair exchange indeed! Nay, I will keep the old now I am wise And hoard my treasures, count them o’er each day; The nezv loves but disturb my soul’s longed peace With rays inconstant which uncaring burn! Let me awhile feel this grand, new release . . . An afternoon's grey hush which soothing comes With nothing nezv, but old remembered things'. Voices of friends grown mellozv zvith the years, Hands thrust in mine —-•—oh, touch which ever clings! Footfalls beside me, music to my ears. Of late nezv lamps have lit my life zvith gold, And, child-like, I would have them to admire; Still these arc mine, but. placed so distantly Their glow awakes no answering desire— Thus freedom shall be mine, though memory Makes me glad captive, bound to olden fire. —Winifred Masters, in the Sydney Morning Herald,
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 104, 26 January 1935, Page 20
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143Friendship Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 104, 26 January 1935, Page 20
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