Poets * Corner
TWO LOVE SONGS (Written for THE SUN) I would have given you verse in a crystal cup Where words Burnt darkly strange and clear like wine Against the crystal’s shaping, thin and fine. 1 would have made you verse like jewelled songs Where icords Winged glintingly like birds from bough To bough in arroicy flight . . . but now 1 cannot give you either wine or song, For word,s Are but grey ghosts of little worth When you are all the wine and song of all the earth. If I can know your love, Then 1 shall be content, Though it should bring me Terror in in the end, and Pain. Though it should lead me into a Place of Darkness 1 shall not be afraid, nor shall I falter. 1 shall be glad, for I shall know That it was once my warmth and music, And 1 shall never lose its savour Though my heart should be heavy with tears. I shall rest content Even in the midst of pain and suffering. For I shall know That Memory is a bread that will nourish me always. —NORA STACEY. Auckland.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 477, 5 October 1928, Page 14
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190Poets* Corner Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 477, 5 October 1928, Page 14
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