| Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918. |
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| 46. Rosalind |
| | | By Hubert Church |
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| ROSALIND has come to town! | |
| All the street’s a meadow, | |
| Balconies are beeches brown | |
| With a drowsy shadow, | |
| And the long-drawn window panes | 5 |
| Are the foliage of her lanes. | |
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| Rosalind about me brings | |
| Sunny brooks that quiver | |
| Unto palpitating wings | |
| Ere they kiss the river, | 10 |
| And her eyes are trusting birds | |
| That do nestle without words. | |
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| Rosalind! to me you bear | |
| Memories of a meeting | |
| When the love-star smote the air | 15 |
| With a pulse’s beating: | |
| Does your spirit love to pace | |
| In the temple of that place? | |
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| Rosalind! be thou the fane | |
| For my soul’s uprising, | 20 |
| Where my heart may reach again | |
| Thoughts of heaven’s devising: | |
| Be the solace self-bestowed | |
| In the shrine of Love’s abode! | |
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