Desert
No bird's flight across the window; j No tall trees swaying to the earth ■ Oir stretching up to heaven; no : Lisping inconsequence; a dearth • Of neighbours' pets about the garden, i Nor books that talk, then glow on [ shelves j While "short wave" claims the airl • and when :
Post harvest bonfires fan themselves j Near hedges, no pungcnce of smoke j To stir the senses with a drug : Of myrrh and asphodel; no joke j Like one's philosophy to hug ■ When jealously the world goes mad I { No oases—and life were sad. j —B.M.G.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23037, 14 May 1938, Page 6 (Supplement)
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