WHAT BRIGHT PETAL?
That single Sower leaning lovely to the wind, Hillside sentinel of summer’s solitude, Will fold its petals up, and we may never find Again the shape and colour of its lustrous mood. Yet flower faces, past and present, come and go Like dreams, and bring enchantment tc the inner eye. And though the green give place to secrecies of snow, They will renew again this moment’s certainty. But what bright petal, arching stem and shapely leaf, Can we recall to herald that more perfect fruit Whose bloom will weather all the winds of grief, And mark a place where reason sank its slender root ? —Robert Wistrand
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21194, 17 August 1940, Page 11 (Supplement)
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109WHAT BRIGHT PETAL? Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21194, 17 August 1940, Page 11 (Supplement)
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