VAGRANT VERSE
PALIMPSEST. It was a custom of the scribes of old. Poets and chroniclers of valiant things, Who served the Muse and glory lent to kings, To take the ancient parchments, told on fold, Erase their wonder tales of iron and gold, Epics of hate, young songs of vanished wings, And over all, with brave imaginings, Set down new dreams, new gospels high and bold. Yet, ages after, from the double page, The cunning-eye may seize the hidden sign Deep written on the seeming candid scroll. And thus, with writings from a vanished age, ■With strange blurred signs, half human, half divine, Broods, in the mystery, man’s secret soul! —by John Jerome Rooney in the N.Y. Post.
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Southland Times, Issue 21095, 29 May 1930, Page 6
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118VAGRANT VERSE Southland Times, Issue 21095, 29 May 1930, Page 6
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