DAFFODILS.
Grey nkies, a sodden street and driving rain, A loneliness that more than winter chills, Then lo! behind a florist’s window pane The flash of daffodils. Like chidden children stand they downeast there, Weary and fading in an alien place; While I—l see again mv own Kildare, Where winds of springtime race. There on the breast of Mature all astir Young grasses shiver in the early morn. There blossoms tender as the soul of her Whiten the damson thorn. 1 hear a cuckoo, now auear, now afar, Cham his gay song along the freshening hill-. Anil in mv father's garden, star by star, Blossom the daffodils. O lowering skies, grey rain atnl .•"dtl"ii st rent! J see you not, for memory-led I turn Back to a land where dawns are misty sweet. And lingering twilights burn. Where a wet spring wind, like the kiss of God, Hedge-guarded hollows with young violets fills: And. courtseying across the greening sod. Laugh Ireland's daffodils.
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Otaki Mail, 20 September 1922, Page 4
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162DAFFODILS. Otaki Mail, 20 September 1922, Page 4
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