| Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918. |
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| 189. Love, the Wizard |
| | | By Lilian Wooster Greaves |
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| LOVE stole in to a fair child dreaming | |
| ’Mid birds and butterflies— | |
| He kissed her innocent eyes. | |
| He held his cruse o’er her bright head gleaming; | |
| The wine and oil to her feet went streaming; | 5 |
| And the child was a woman wise. | |
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| Love crept in to a woman gazing, | |
| Who saw, with eyes of pain, | |
| A garden wet with rain. | |
| Her faded face with his right hand raising, | 10 |
| He wrapped her in rainbow vesture blazing; | |
| And the woman was young again. | |
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