| Show PRIZE POEM CONTES CONTEST t. t AWARDED FIRST PRIZE Alcestis A pale moon breaks the sky's monotony And dark clouds hover round its silvery sides Now oer o'er its cresent face the night-bird night glides In winged flight Ah would that I could see Far far beyond that ghostly sphere where she Methinks with earth-departed earth souls abides Where angel voices sweetly sing where rides On soothing winds the songsters songster's harmony Ah fair Alcestis even fairer still Than gleaming moon-beams moon on a woodland stream My heart has flown to thee where thou dost dwell But I lam am am not with thee and sad thoughts fill My weary soul But hark 1 I the owl doth scream Me back to dreary earth Once more farewell Shady Stringer u. u |
