KOWHAI
’(By
A. R. D. FAIR BURN.
When the candles bum again in the kowhai tree, I shall return, remembering older springs when the sky was a blue pool where dreamily clouds floated like silver swans with folded wings.
I shall return, remembering how Love fulfils in the springtime her immortal trust, and builds Her leafy temple in the kowhai grove, scorning the dull remonstrance of the dust.
I shall lie on the cliffs under the small gold flowers, and smell wild honeysuckle, and hear the chime of the waves, like bells ringing in the shadowy tower; of some grey village of the olden time. I shall return. But oh, the spring will falter—yield her green faith to summer's unbelief, and the kowhai will darken the candles on her altar, and strew on the grey winds her; golden grief.
GOMSIMES DED
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 543, 21 December 1928, Page 5 (Supplement)
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141KOWHAI Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 543, 21 December 1928, Page 5 (Supplement)
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