TOGETHER WE TWO SLIPPED AWAY
(By Ronald Howard )
Together we tivo slipped away Into the land of splendid night, Cleansed of the ivorld’s unceasing clamour, The restless, syncopated sway, Of tinselled, incandescent light, Far from bright crowds and the half-glamour Of lovely, worldly faces, to a place Lost in a hill, a hidden space, Blue-starlit, and soft-shadowed by A fringe of pepper trees that clung Deep sleeping round—a place to lie Full length and dream under the moon, While those long-drooping trees doum-hang Their slenderness caressingly . . .
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20989, 16 December 1939, Page 16 (Supplement)
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86TOGETHER WE TWO SLIPPED AWAY Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20989, 16 December 1939, Page 16 (Supplement)
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