Not yet the red resplendence on the height,
Through mist the treetops on the slope appear
More dim, more deep. The grassy base is clear,
Poised delicate by a spell of frosty white.
The scattered crofts look small and phantom-slight,
Smoke swaying to the wind's elusive veer.
Furrows and pasture fringe the atmosphere
With mirrored hues that catch the growing light.
Some primal moment stills the trembling air,
The world's held breath ere yet the first-born ray
Launched from the sworded Tongue and lit the void.
Till breaks the crimson flooding, brilliant, rare,
On fields and tilth and all the things of day,
To ruddy dew on wings exhilarant-buoyed.
First published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 July 1926
Author: Leslie Holdsworth Allen (1879-1964) was born in Maryborough, Victoria, and studied at the University of Sydney and at Leipzig. He was later Professor of English at the Royal Military College Duntroon and lecturer in English at Canberra University College. He published five volumes of poetry during his lifetime and died in Morua, New South Wales, in 1964.
Author reference sites: Austlit, Australian Dictionary of Biography
See also.
Through mist the treetops on the slope appear
More dim, more deep. The grassy base is clear,
Poised delicate by a spell of frosty white.
The scattered crofts look small and phantom-slight,
Smoke swaying to the wind's elusive veer.
Furrows and pasture fringe the atmosphere
With mirrored hues that catch the growing light.
Some primal moment stills the trembling air,
The world's held breath ere yet the first-born ray
Launched from the sworded Tongue and lit the void.
Till breaks the crimson flooding, brilliant, rare,
On fields and tilth and all the things of day,
To ruddy dew on wings exhilarant-buoyed.
First published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 July 1926
Author: Leslie Holdsworth Allen (1879-1964) was born in Maryborough, Victoria, and studied at the University of Sydney and at Leipzig. He was later Professor of English at the Royal Military College Duntroon and lecturer in English at Canberra University College. He published five volumes of poetry during his lifetime and died in Morua, New South Wales, in 1964.
Author reference sites: Austlit, Australian Dictionary of Biography
See also.
