VAGRANT VERSE
ORDER IS EASY. Order is easy, but audacity comes hard Being natural to angels and the like. Be slow, be warned, retaliate, retard, With a thimbleful of energy, strike. But do not imagine you are as the angels, Those unleashed minds Plunging like comets into the changeful And unpredictable winds; Do not imagine you are removed From belly-travelling serpents: a man Is complete, upstanding, approved Only when more than man— When he sees the manner of his death, and will try it, If honour and his hope be undestroyed, When he steps forth quiet Upon the floorless void. —Virginia Moore in Prairie Schooner..
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Southland Times, Issue 21716, 31 May 1932, Page 4
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105VAGRANT VERSE Southland Times, Issue 21716, 31 May 1932, Page 4
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