(JOHN SHAW NEILSON.)
In tracking up his rhymes he seems to pace
A moony path, indeed.
Even as a shadowy sower in a dream
Might sow his faery seed:
In such a mystic world he seems to move,
And so unreal he,
The seeds of fancy are indeed the things
He sets to melody.
First published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 July 1926
In tracking up his rhymes he seems to pace
A moony path, indeed.
Even as a shadowy sower in a dream
Might sow his faery seed:
In such a mystic world he seems to move,
And so unreal he,
The seeds of fancy are indeed the things
He sets to melody.
First published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 July 1926