24 DECEMBER 1921, Page 15
RUSTIC SUNDAY.
BY the roadside
The flowering plum-trees Are like village-girls Going to church on Sunday : And the flowering blackthorn-trees Are like white-headed pensioners, In twos and threes, With old black coats And crooked bodies.
But you, in stiff white muslin,
Are lovelier even Than a flowering apple-tree.
You are the curved New blossom
Of .a dog-rose,
Dewy-sweet,
On a Sunday morning.
CECIL HAN N.