THE POET’S CORNER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9065, 4 February 1908, Page 6

THE POET’S CORNER.

THE SEA WITCH. Endlessly fell her chestnut flowers, Faint snow throughout the honeyed (i The myrtle spread his boughs to drink Deep drafts of salt from the sea’s brink, And like a moon-dial swung her tower’s Straight shadow o’er her warded park. her calm coasts the galleons fled. The fisher steered him farther west. No port was hailed, no keel came home Across that pale, enchanted foam, But by her roof the thrushes fed And wondering swallows f rest. The shadows touched her tenderly, The red beam lingered on~her dress. The white gull and the osprey knew Her tower across the leagues of blue. The wild swan when he sought the sea Was laggard through her loveliness. Marjorie L. O. Pickthall. In McClure’s Magazine.