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Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918.

By Lilian Wooster Greaves

189 . Love, the Wizard

LOVE stole in to a fair child dreaming

’Mid birds and butterflies—

He kissed her innocent eyes.

He held his cruse o’er her bright head gleaming;

The wine and oil to her feet went streaming;

And the child was a woman wise.

Love crept in to a woman gazing,

Who saw, with eyes of pain,

A garden wet with rain.

Her faded face with his right hand raising,

He wrapped her in rainbow vesture blazing;

And the woman was young again.