Poem by Katherine Mansfield

Firelight

Playing in the fire and twilight together,
My little son and I,
Suddenly--woefully--I stoop to catch him.
”Try, mother, try!”

Old Nurse Silence lifts a silent finger:
”Hush! cease your play!”
What happened? What in that tiny moment
Flew away?

1. Little Brother’s Story
2. Song of the Little White Girl
3. The Awakening River
4. In the Rangitaki Valley
5. The Man with the Wooden Leg

Bessie Parkes Firelight ("'TIS dark, and I fancy")

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