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Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918.

By Shaw Neilson

133 . The Green Singer

ALL singers have shadows

That follow like fears,

But I know a singer

Who never saw tears;

A gay love—a green love—

Delightsome—divine:

The Spring is that singer—

An old love of mine!

All players have shadows,

And into the play

Old sorrows will saunter—

Old sorrows will stay.

But here is a player

Whose speech is divine:

The Spring is that player—

An old love of mine!

All singers grow heavy:

Their hours as they run

Bite up all the blossoms,

Suck up all the sun;

But I know a singer

Delightsome—divine:

The gay love—the green love—

An old love of mine!