Fairy Tales

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 14, 16 October 1931, Unnumbered Page

Fairy Tales

‘And from the printed page broke sound and: form, The rumour of great pine woods filled: with storm, Down a dim forest aisle, a troop of gnomes, : Ran bearing torches, blazing pine-tree-cones,.' The red light leaped on rugged bough and bark, And lit green fires where beasts prowled.in the dark, Then suddenly there trembled.on the ‘sight ~ An ocean cavern filled with. rippling light ... Where droves of coloured fish in jewelled Flitted in clear still water, lucent, green. On silver sand, with hair of changing sheen, Fingering a pearl, a foam-white nereid lay Watching with amber eyes the ripples play. And then before the charmed eye there. seemed A murmurous land, wind dappled, silver streamed, Where the frail spires of pearl-pale cities dreamed In dim green woods, and foaming. flowery tracts, Down the jade steeps fell misting cataracts, A golden wind set nodding flower and tree, Afar, dark as ahyacinth, the sea beat wp : tts strand, And suddenly the years were’ ‘rainbow’ spanived, These were remembered hills of fairy land =: But glamour died, and faded fori aid: titif,. The beauty sank into the-sober print. *

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