The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-01
FAIR WOMAN POET CONES
10 RESIDE IN HONOLULU

- Honolulan lawyer. who has
T>ome here to live. Is a poet. musician
and painter OF more than ordinary
merit. She was a child of genius and
gave extraordinary promise OF talent
when but a baby. When other children
CT her age-five years-were playing
with their dolls. she was composing
poetry, OF picking out melody from the
keys of the piano. She wrote a play
when but eleven years old which was
produced in her convent.
Mrs. Hankey's nom de plume, Marie
Winslow. Is the joining together OF her
second name with that OF her hus-
band
Labouchere. editor OF London Truth.
has accepted some of Mrs Hankey's
poems. and she Is known in London.
She Is the possessor OF letter from
the talented ard erratic editor, In
which he pays high tribute to her
lest contribution To his magazine
The Northwest Magazine has this TO
say regarding her poetry: Among the
younger artists and poets OF the Far
West Is Mrs. W. +. Hankey. who Is
better known To the public as Marie
" inslow. She II a resident OF Seattle
Washington. For u long time she has
been charming the public with her
sweet irish poems. one OF which was
published by us In recent number
Some of these poems have been set to
music and have proved very popular.
Mrs. Hankey, whose picture is given
In this issue. possesses a striking per-
|sonality and Is much admired i'm social
as well as literary circles. She is gifted
with fine Irish wit IL a brilliant con-
|versationalist, and inherits through her
mothers family the fair complexion
golden hair and dark eyes which dis
ltinguish the Castilian type Of beauty"
As an example OF her bright wit one
might quote the following anecdote.
which went the rounds OF Seattle A
well known man there in introducing
Mrs. Hankey to some literary people,
said: Allow me to present to you Mrs.
Hankey. the Rhododendron Of Wash
tirgton State"
courteous: II am not Sc brilliant as
that. / am only a shamrock" How
uany know that 81. Patrick explained
the mystery OF the trinity by the little
lfiower-the shamrock? That Is the
common explanation Of it's adoption as
lIreiand's most cherished emblem. Fol.
lowing Is Mrs. Hankey's poem on ths
shamrock. which was freely copied int,
many prominent papers In the States
THE SHAMROCK.
Isome tender leaves OF clover.
Lie low at my feet today.
And they speak to my yearning heart
cords
OF an island far away;
Where their sister-bloom grows ever
Thro' the greenness OF the year,
Where about its leaves twine memries
To an Irish heart most dear.
In fbfrt of chudhoodsa r,orninr
| OF the path to the boreen's ahade--
lOf the wreath OF clover blossoms
That my childish fingers made
Tor the tender. wee. green shamrock
That I plucked with childish love.
And communed with the birds and flow
In the scented. dewy grove.
lwhcn 7 sang with the lark at morning.
As ~ scared 10 the distant sky.
And at eve I sobbed with the ring-dove
Lest In fear Il would moaning die:
lWhen I raised the yellow cowslips
That were pressed by the fairies feet,
AS they danced In the od'rous meadow
To the elfn music sweet.
When list meath the hawthorn
For the sound Of the fairies ring.
las they paused In their merry revei
BY the side of the magic spring,
THAT dear to my childish fancy.
With its tender nursery lore.
Held secrets ever bubbling
From the deeps OF Its liquid store.
land now. though the June o. LIES rose
Are seeming the happy years.
In turn with tender yearning
| To that time with It's April tears;
And its May Of happy laughter
That lies where the shamrock green
ICrows back on the turf In Erin
with the years that come between.
IThose DAVIS with their childish dreamin
| And these on an allen shore
lThat have given my life meaning
IL had never known before.
! So tender leaves OF clover
That lie at my feet today.
In kiss your verdant freshness
For your sisters, far away
Ia my home. where the blue waves siis'
As they sweep the Irish strand.
my home where the shamrocks grow