RONDEAUS.
Persephone, your eyes, care-free, Are deep with some strange alchemy, While in the concord of your dress There's more than artistry can guess, For here is flashing melody. And O, 'tis sweet for one to be The slave of such gay minstrelsy — Each rustle can a heart obsess, Persephone. An impresario, whose fee Is dainty, dashing repartee, Embellished by a vagrom tress Of dazzling gold. So I confess To {»reat themes handled trivially. But pray you will not love me less, Persephone. 11. (Night and the stars!) Love's deeps and days Crowned by wild suns which kindle in their blaze The rapture o' the brooding- Infinite: The glorious world and all its lavish might, Tortured, alas! to give some pagan god his bays. But ever call me back to temple ways, Roofed 'neath ten trillion tinkling rays, The seasons and th' ages flash their flight. (Night and the stars!) The silent black, the world-besprinkled greys. The thought o' men so weakened in its gaz» By years o' war and anger, hate to blight The pure wine-shaded chalice of delight: Love deep and hate the world— a victor sky» Daringly hopeless, lost in saddest plight. (Night and the stars.) L. yon Ka.ulba.ch.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 70
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202RONDEAUS. Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 70
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