FANCY’S FLIGHT.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5480, 27 September 1929, Page 2

FANCY’S FLIGHT.

(By the late Jack Fitzgerald, Karan-

gahake.)

While yet the red sun’s flaming crest Is visible above the west, I hear upon the ev’ning wind, That well lov’d voice sweetly refined ; Whisp’ring sweet messages of love, In language learn’d from heaven above.

And as slow the ev’ning shadows fall Aslant yon hedge-grown garden wall, I in fancy see that well lov’d face, Where, wondering, I love to trace The mirror’d image of that soul, ’Neath purities complete control.

And as the shadows deeper grow, While still the ev’ning breezes blow, I see each blue and love-lit eye, Like twin stars shining in the sky : There honour, truth, and love divine, With smile and laughter jointly shine.

And ere ev’ning shadows turn to night, I, dreaming, see in softer light; Ere the charm of eve, like the day has fled,

Two lips so sweet and rosy red— I in fancy kiss them o’er and o’er Till the visions fade to return no more.

O, Sweet, thou art my whole existence.

And tho’ long’s the road and wide’s , the distance ; Tho’ many a mile between us lie, These things I can and will defy ; For on love-bent wings my fancy’s flight Could bridge o’er a million, miles tonight.