UNCONQUERABLE.
Homer and Mil ton blind, Beethoven deaf» And Collins mad and Savage famishing, And Marlowe huddled into a forgotten grave, And Chatterton—and sorrows everywhere Loading the witless air:
Calamity and Death hunt the sam e wood, One strikes if other misses; neither rests, Making of Eden daily desolation, A, bloody amphitheatre of Earth, Cinders of April turf.
The enemies of Poetry, the fierce thieves Of beauty’s and creation’s miracle, Twin Caesars ravaging their captived Kingdoms For envy slaying what else lives undecaving Or maiming without slaying. ... ’
If there were worses ills thru Death to dream of, "Worse pangs than hunger’s and the numbed
sense, If even the long foul solitude of the grave Ended not othei; griefs of other men, And other fears; even then
Poetry needs must breathe through lips of man
Desperate defiance and immortal courage, s must hope bicker in-hig burning eye, And Death and hunger, madness and despite. Sink sullenly from sight. John Freeman, in the London Mercury,
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Otago Witness, Issue 3853, 17 January 1928, Page 74
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163UNCONQUERABLE. Otago Witness, Issue 3853, 17 January 1928, Page 74
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