Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 2, No. 16. August 2, 1939
Retrospect for Grace
Retrospect for Grace
And in your new found happiness
do you remember still those days of long ago!
I think that then the world was very young:
warm winds of youth had barely touched the ageless snow
of childhood days that lasted long eternities
in carefree happiness and sweet content.
Do you remember, still, St. Leonard's woods all springing green
with fluttering banners of bold, leaves, and deep broom-golden scent . . .
and murmurous autumn days in May, fallen pine-cones, and fire-bright ranks of poplars, whispering . . .
mushroom meadows whitely starred wherein you strode
through dawn-rainbowed summer dew . . .
luscious blackberries gathered from the vivid thorny vines—
hands, and lips, deep-purple-stained. . .
larch and silver birch etched with graceful lines
on winter's sunsets blazing in the cold blue sky of frosty afternoons . . .
that long house where roses and wistaria flood the air
with heady fragrances; tea upon the daisied, lawns,
and sunlight falling through the cedars to your hair. . .
—a.