15 OCTOBER 1927, Page 12

Still Life

A DISH of round oranges standing in the shadow, Glowing with the glamour of a far Seville Where the slow peasants in a Spanish noontide Pluck them from their branches as the sunbeams spill.

Great round oranges, globes of flaming colour,

Carried in a wooden crate away from dreaming Spain To a windswept kingdom, northern, cloud begirt, All distilling sunshine in a land. of rain:

CARYL MIAMI&