26 SEPTEMBER 1952, Page 13

Hunter's Song

From the German of Eduard Morike, 1837.

Fair the footprints in the mountain snow When the birds their lofty errands go.

Fairer prints my love's beloved hand Writes in letters to my distant land.

Far aloft a heron mounts the skies There where neither shaft nor bullet flies.

Thousand times as high and swifter far All the many thoughts of true love are. JOHN PETRIE