The Witch-Maid, & Other Verses

THE WITCH-MAID & OTHER VERSES


DOROTHEA MACKELLAR 1914 LONDON AND TORONTO J. M. DENT & SONS LTD. NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.


About a third of these poems have appeared before in a volume published in Australia; several in The Spectator and The Sydney Bulletin , and a few elsewhere. I have to thank the editors for permission to reprint.

I wandered in the woodland a morning in the spring, I found a glade I had not known, and saw an evil thing.
I heard a wood-dove calling, as one that loves and grieves, The sun was shining silver on the small bright leaves, O it was very beautiful, the glade that I had found! I peeped between the slender stems, and there upon the ground A man was lying dead, and from the spear-wound in his side The sluggish blood had ceased to flow, and yet had hardly dried.