Verse For To-day
The secret of these hills was stone, and cottages Of that stone made, And crumbling roads That turned on sudden villages. Now over these small hills they have built the concrete That trails black wire; Pylons, those pillars Bare like nude, giant girls that have no secret. But far above and far as sight endures Like whips of anger With lightning’s danger There runs the quick perspective of the future. This dwarfs our emerald country by its trek So tall with prophecy; Dreaming of cities Where often clouds shall lean their swan-white neck. From “ The Pylons.” by Stephen Spender, 1909 [Faber and Faber, Ltd.].
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27229, 4 November 1949, Page 1
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107Verse For To-day Otago Daily Times, Issue 27229, 4 November 1949, Page 1
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