IN AN OLD HOMESTEAD
For years and years* and* years, In this room of a great-grandsire, Others have sat as I sit, • : . ! ' , . Spreading their hands to the ftre. : Generations of hands— Powerl'ul hands outflung, - Hands witherpd and- old. " I Hands be-autiful, young. Spreading my hands to the flre, l see, as a blue, as a glow. Myself in a vanishing mirror ' Go down the ages ago. - I see through llowerless orchards. Through ghostly -thoroughfafes. -. Myself a flgure passing ' " ' r . To mingie my kaijds with theirs. lieap. cedar-flame ieap ! Leap, flame of the pinel And warm 'my -hatidft— •> While yet my hauds arej mine. — Agnes Lee, *in *' Poetry. • *
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 19, 15 October 1937, Page 37 (Supplement)
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107IN AN OLD HOMESTEAD Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 19, 15 October 1937, Page 37 (Supplement)
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