The Wooing of Sendal.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2036, 25 July 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

The Wooing of Sendal.

AN OLD JAPANESE LEOEND. For ever in the pine clad shore Of Tnkasango's Bay Tbe cold waves dash their crystal heads In many tinted spray, L°sn cold than she whom Sendai's son Wood for bo long and strangely won. Fairer was she than aught of earth, Divine in form and face, Each limb and feature oharmed the eye With more than mortal grace ; Yet naught of earth coald move or thrill Her heart, as marble hard and chill. Long was the suit that Sendai urged ; Slow years their courses ran, Yet never dared the immortal maid Hear love from mortal man. Sky born, how could she bend below And c'en a prinoe's worship know ? And yet she loved him. Day by day, Beneath one wind-swept pine, Shn heard him to his aaininen * Singing her praise divine, A woman still though goddess, eha Drank in his worship eagerly. Entranced, enslaved, ho saw the light Bura in her deep-lushed eyes ; No longer thwarted, 'neath the pine, He clasped his beauteous prize. Loud thunder rolled : the gods above, Saw that a goddess stooped to love. And then, the story says the gods Changed eaoh into a pine ; And still with sounds of ocean's voice, Th6ir love-aongs intertwine, Condemned to sigh and sob in vain, In storm and sunshine wind and rain. 'The national musical instrument of Japan muoh resembles our guitar.