The Shadow on the Blind.
Last night I walked among the lamps that gleamed, And saw a shadow on a window blind, A moving shadow : and the picture seemed To call some scene to mind. I looked again ; a dark form, to and fro, Swayed softly, as to music full of rest, Bent low, bent lower — still I did not know — And then at last I guessed. For through the night old memories came nocking, White memories like the snownakes round me whirled ; "All's well," I said, "the mothers sit still rocking The cradles of the world." Will H. Ogilvie, in the "Outlook."
The stately Eucalyptus bows its head, And sighs and moans as if all joys had fled. The sleepy Bear cries: — "Why such lament ' I'd like to know what's ruffled your content." " Alas !" the sad old tree says in reply, " Once full of joy, and pride, and power was I, But now my oil's discarded, and I find Woods' Peppermint Cure is used by all mankind."
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Free Lance, Volume V, Issue 220, 17 September 1904, Page 16
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168The Shadow on the Blind. Free Lance, Volume V, Issue 220, 17 September 1904, Page 16
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