A love that blossoms soon, but ripens slowly

To the full goldenness of fruitful prime,

Enduring with a firmness that defies

All shallow tricks of circumstance and time;

By a sure insight knowing where to cling,

And where it clingeth never withering.”


Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London.


WORKS BY WILLIAM ANDERSON.