"IT HAS COME AGAIN"
OELECTED POEMS, by Miss Dallas Kenmare (Shakespeare Head Press), contains the best of tho verse composed by this talented poet. Many will welcome this "thoughtful winnowing," with the addition of many new poems. Wo quote that on "War," inspired by the outbreak last September. "7 have seen Arras and Reims and Ypres— Arras the sad, the shrapnel-pock-markcd, Reims, the city of ghosts, Ypres, the stricken, the silent, I have seen phantom broken trees. Pointing gaunt fingers in accusation; Also I have seen the ugly mud-labyrinths,
Where those they still called men supported life like animals— And I have seen mile upon mile of little crosses, while and black — Graves of the English and the German dead. "And it has come again. The agony that I cried must never he, The spectre that haunted my days relentlessly— For 1 could never forget Arras and Reims and Ypres, Wan cities of the dead. Nor the pitiful broken trees, And the twisted lives of the sons of GodEnglish and German and French— Nor the illimitable fields of small crosses. White and black-"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23618, 30 March 1940, Page 4 (Supplement)
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183"IT HAS COME AGAIN" New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23618, 30 March 1940, Page 4 (Supplement)
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