Poets’ Comer

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1021, 11 July 1930, Page 16

Poets’ Comer

ELIXIR When once again among the winds at eve We roam with heeding hearts; in woodlands wild Secure soft healing from the earth's : brown breast; Beside the sea relearn its hoary song; And feel in fields new mown the perfect peace Of toil’s fulfilment and the rounding sleep ; When of the storm our souls are graced anew With mighty music: — Then on hills at morn restoring wine Shall pour,'a paradisal draught. To stir the sources of ethereal dream: Then Spring shall be a spirit, and the stars Shall be a shrine to our awakened hearts. For these, the magic food, of ancient gods. The fabled gold of Saturn’s rosy age. These tender Powers that nurse immortal Youth — In man’s frail heart a lamp untimely dark — These have we long forsaken; unaware We move with step down-crushing and with voice Ignoble, harsh, amid their ministrations — Their simples to the feverous, stricken soul That hath no longer vision and is lost. Their solace and their healing we have scorned: — We have bound up our hearts In vales of desolation—driven deep The bolts of iron and gold. The thirst for Beauty that in earlier years Made of itself an ecstasy untold Is buried deep beneath down-trodden dream : Is fed no more by those old healing draughts That Sow fromisunset's magic Gres, Or murmurous rains of mute autumnal dawns. EUAN GAEL-LBON. Christchurch. BOOKS IN DEMAND AT THE AUCKLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FICTION “TWO WIVES," by G. Cornwalliswest. ■ “THE GOOD COMPANIONS," by J. B '“THE tI WOMAN OF ANDROS," by Thornton Wilder. “THE LACQUER LADY," by F. Tennyson Jesse. “RETREAT," by C. R. Benstcad. “EXPLOITS OF BRIGADIER GERARD,” by A. Conan Doyle. “GALLOWS ORCHARD ,” by Claire Spencer. “PORTRAIT OF CLAIREby 11. Brett Young. “ULTIMA THULE." by H. H. Richardson. “A GALLERY OF WOMEN," by Theodore, Dreiser. NON-FICTION “OUR AMERICAN ADVENTURE," by A. Conan Doyle. “THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST,” by Oscar Wilde. “LIFE AND WORK OF MRS. PIPER,” by .4. L. Piper. “DRAGON LIZARDS OF KOMODO," by W. Burden. “ADS AND SALES,” by H. N. Casson. “TARIFF WALLS," by Sir Clive M orrison-Bell. “THE JUNGLE TIDE," by John Still. “THE SEA DEVIL'S FO'C'SLE ,” by Lowell Thomas. “PHANTOM WALLS," by Sir Oliver Lodge, “IN QUEST OF THE SUN,” by Alain Gerbdult.