NOVEMBER, 1923
On the day of liis retirement, Jnrd Dariing, until then one of His Majesty’s judges, wrote the moving red dramatic lines which appear in/hikv'dnme ‘‘On the Oxford Circuit ur.ti Other Verses”:— • !^V-'- v ft Long worn, now cast aside; red robe,, lie there— , Not, when the organ throbs Ilia Nave along. By chests of Kingly dust, And Gothic chantries old, Shall, with measured step, and quietening heart, Pass to the Judge’s place; and, bow r J, implore , , Myself be not condemned, - Nor less than right decree. Not, with resounding trumpets, may' I come To sit in judgment on the regal Beheh; Dividing fals» from true, "With sword and even scale,' Mantle and stole laid by, and cap of doom; Bereft, alone, I wear no ermine more; Nor judge—yet one Assize, ' I, fearful, must attend.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12008, 10 December 1924, Page 16 (Supplement)
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136NOVEMBER, 1923 New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 12008, 10 December 1924, Page 16 (Supplement)
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