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The Witch Maid is a collection of fantastical poems and tales about supernatural, fairytale beings. You will be enchanted by this thrilling and delightful tale. Excerpt: "I wandered in the woodland a morning in the spring, I found a glade I had not known, and saw an evil thing…"
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The Witch Maid, and Other Verses - Dorothea Mackellar
Dorothea Mackellar
The Witch Maid, and Other Verses
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Table of Contents
THE WITCH-MAID
THE COLOURS OF LIGHT
FROM A TOWN WINDOW
THE SANTA MARIA
SUMER IS ICUMEN IN
NIGHT ON THE PLAINS
SETTLERS
MY COUNTRY
SWALLOWS
FIRE
HIGH PLACES
THE CLOSED DOOR
REMINDER
CULGAI PADDOCK
CANTICLE
MARCH WINDS
COLOUR
NON PENSO A LEI
THE ROAD TO RONDA
THE MOON AND THE MORNING
FLOWER AND THORN
THE GREY LAKE
BURNING OFF
AN OLD SONG
BAZAR
SPRING ON THE PLAINS
PILGRIM SONG
THE COORONG SANDHILLS
TWO JAPANESE SONGS
II
AN AFTERGLOW ON THE NILE
THE EXPLORER
SEPTEMBER
RIDING RHYME
FOUR TRANSLATIONS FROM THE GERMAN
II
III
IV
CHÂTEAU D'ESPAGNE
BATHING RHYME
MONTORO'S SONG AGAINST COUNT ALVARO DE LUNA, HIGH CONSTABLE OF CASTILE
SEA-FOG
SORROW
SEAGULL
THE WITCH-MAID
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I wandered
in the woodland a morning in the spring,
I found a glade I had not known, and saw an evil thing.
I heard a wood-dove calling, as one that loves and grieves,
The sun was shining silver on the small bright leaves,
O it was very beautiful, the glade that I had found!
I peeped between the slender stems, and there upon the ground
A man was lying dead, and from the spear-wound in his side
The sluggish blood had ceased to flow, and yet had hardly dried.
O the shining of the leaves,
The morning of the year!
O how could any die to-day, with life so young and dear?
My feet were tied with horror, I could not turn to run;
A light breeze tossed the branches, the shadow and the sun
Across the dead face shifted—it seemed to change and twitch—
When from the trees beyond me stepped a white young witch.
I prayed that I was hidden, she never
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