20 SEPTEMBER 1935, Page 20

Shared Light

IN black articulate winter, the Ieaf gone, ,

Finely they covered with their love the bone- Bare garden steep, the stone-ribbed land, Together moved alone, (Shared light had made their singular shadows one) ;.

Grew shy. of word's green, who had learned to agree And stark in every tree Could see their stilled joy like a skeleton, The tissueless truth, significantly stand.

Field-wise each month he manned Decay with peace, not pondering their own Life's lease foreclosing sere and mistily, And never until April suddenly shone For new world saw the withering of her hand ; Nor she through his the sun.

LILIAN BOWES LYON.