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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2562, 24 July 1909, Page 1 (Supplement)

AN APRiL WIND. ' (By Edith Wyatt.) Oh. one I hoard an April wind On hill-ton. plain, and lea: "Drop all that ties your foot, behind, And follow, follow mo. "I breathe the breath of vanished snows. The combing clouds 1 ride. In wild-flower woods my spirit blows. Oh! follow swift beside!"’ By the flood-lapped bluff and dipping boom I walked the upland plain ; And fresh arose the earth's perfume And cool dropped down the rain. And happy, hapov. happy, I Beyond my thought or guess "Who chased beneath the changing sky My unfound happiness. For veiled and far the early star. And scattered far and pale Hepatica and dogtooth are On April shore and trail. By hlac'k-turned loam, by white-flocked foam Whore winds and waters' streamed I never found to carry homo The very flowers I dreamed. More, more than what I missed or found The open-vaulted day. The river chords, the fragrant ground. The wind's wide voice and way—“Oh, follow, follow, follow me— My pulses run and leap By valley, plain, and upland lea. Bv foam-lapped bluff and steep.” "I breathe the breath of vanished snows And wild-rose sprays unborn. Through cloud-racks cool. my footsteps f "goes . . . "Where high-swung mists are tom. Down April roads the rain dropped wind Ban ooutying fresh and free: “Oh. reck not what you lose of find: But follow, follow mod

n Englishman, a Yankee, and an Irishman. had met, and, not uncommon, a few yarns were pitched. The subject, chosen was some envious rinds in certain fish. The Englishman a.<l with “I rsrnoiTibrr <iiie.v a gold ring being taken from a ebd.’ ! “Is • that ;>•] replied the Yan'kcc, with bright hopes oi eansing. surprise in the ecnnpai.r. "I. remember a table and chair being taken from a whale.'' But Pat was not, to be stuck. “That's no surprise,” lie replied. “Sure, 7. wanec saw wid mo own eyes a, sarviut girl taken from a plate (plaice).”

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