STRAY VERSE.
ROMANCE IN THE CTTY
God opens doors to those who knock, He sends His dreams to thosp" who pray For some romance the while they toil In dingy offices all day, When fog. hangs over London town, And City streets aie cold ami gray.
Each Bill of Lading’s a. romance To make me dream of Eastern seas, Of’ towns with strangely sounding
names, . Of shining harbours, sun-bathed quays; I picture grave-faced merchant-men In dim bazaars as consignees.
I write the vessel’s name and port, And lo ! her halliards sing to me, I am on board and Eastward bo unit For Smyrna and Gallipoli, Thro’ archipelagoes that gleam Like opals on a sapphire sea-
I see the goods I invoice home’d In palaces of dusky kings, In corridors all pearl and gold, In courtyards full of splendid tilings Where slave-girls dance, magnificent Beyond a man’s imaginings.
When fog comes down on London town, .. And Cty streets are cold and gray, God opens doors to those who knock, And sends romance to those who
pray For warmth and color, while they toil In dingy offices all day. G.K.M., in tile “Westminster Gazette.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3586, 27 July 1912, Page 3
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192STRAY VERSE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3586, 27 July 1912, Page 3
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