HOPE IS DEAD
"Esperance Morte," by Edmond Pilon HREE Queens, lo! bending so 4 Over the river that flows below, The Red, the Blue, the White in a row; Green as hope the waters flow; *Tis their beauty draws them so, Mirrored in the stream below. HREE Queens bending, one lets fall Into the river rings and all, Rings and roses and jewelled ball, Into the river she lets them fall; Bending low, the three Queens tall, Blue Queen bending lowest of all. "HREE Queens bending, the second one there, The Red one, and she of the hands so fair, Three Queens bending, the Red one there, Watching the star that the waters bear, Drops her lilies; the other fair, The Blue-eyed Queen, lets fall her hair. fe oo Queens bending low the head, \L Three, the Blue, the White, ‘and the Red, Bending low where hope has fled; The water flows over hope that is dead; Under the reeds the fishes red Silently cross the sleeping dead.
G.
W.
yon
Zedlitz
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 501, 28 January 1949, Page 11
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172HOPE IS DEAD New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 501, 28 January 1949, Page 11
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