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

By Frank Wilmot

183 . Edelweiss

THERE grows a white, white flower

By the wild Alps of romance;

And who would reach its dainty leaves

Takes life and death in chance.

There is a dark, dark cavern

Where a woman goes alone,

Takes hope and peril in her hand

And fights Death on his throne.

To our heart’s breathless calling

She comes from the cavern wild,

Holding in her exhausted arms

A small, white, blossoming child.