Leaves of another year bud on the hills;
Songs of another year sing in our hearts;
Good luck, good cheer, and recompense for ills,
Each new-born flower some wistful wish imparts.
See where the mellow sun sheds golden tears
A yellow rosebud nods her smiling head;
And these tall grasses, like a school of seers,
Repeat the prayer the wind so lately said.
So carolling adown the scented way;
New life, new resolutions everywhere;
My spirit bows before the shrine of day,
Swearing allegiance to a thing so fair.
First published in The Argus, 15 January 1916
Author: Zora Cross (1890-1963) was born in Brisbane and trained and worked as a primary school teacher before the birth of her first child. She married actor Stuart Smith in 1911 but the marriage was dissolved some 11 years later. She lived with the author David McKee Wright in a de facto relationship and the couple had two children. A pioneering female poet, she was very prolific and published 4 collections of her work. She also wrote a number of novels which were serialised in The Queenslander.
Author reference sites: Austlit, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Old Qld Poetry
See also.
Songs of another year sing in our hearts;
Good luck, good cheer, and recompense for ills,
Each new-born flower some wistful wish imparts.
See where the mellow sun sheds golden tears
A yellow rosebud nods her smiling head;
And these tall grasses, like a school of seers,
Repeat the prayer the wind so lately said.
So carolling adown the scented way;
New life, new resolutions everywhere;
My spirit bows before the shrine of day,
Swearing allegiance to a thing so fair.
First published in The Argus, 15 January 1916
Author: Zora Cross (1890-1963) was born in Brisbane and trained and worked as a primary school teacher before the birth of her first child. She married actor Stuart Smith in 1911 but the marriage was dissolved some 11 years later. She lived with the author David McKee Wright in a de facto relationship and the couple had two children. A pioneering female poet, she was very prolific and published 4 collections of her work. She also wrote a number of novels which were serialised in The Queenslander.
Author reference sites: Austlit, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Old Qld Poetry
See also.
