CONCENTRATION
Do you remember how evening Would creep across the valley Dimming the sad distances And overtaking all the vagrant lights? (I must remember nothing But this dull-gleaming barrel And these two sights.) Do you remember how morning Would stir the drowsy hillsides Sprinkling pale gold across the trees — Lighting the dew’s first sheen? (I must remember nothing But the catch on automatic And the full magazine.) Do you remember how peace Would cloak the land at noon; The tired stock, the shade, And the pleasant summer thirst? (1 must remember nothing But the even trigger pressure And the stuttering burst.) —David McNicoll, A.1.F., in the “Sydney Morning Herald.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 8 January 1944, Page 6
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109CONCENTRATION Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 8 January 1944, Page 6
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