VERSES

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4529, 28 January 1942, Page 4

VERSES

THREE BOMBER BOYS “They took off into stardust One night like this, last June; They turned among the stardust And climbed across the moon. We watched amid the starry night Their tail-lamp vanish swift from sight— Their engines faded soon. “We watched, and luck we wished them As we went back to bed. Next morning when we missed them, ‘They’re not down yet?’ we said. An old mechanic rubbed his eye—‘Good lads like them can’t never die; They’re still upstairs, not dead.’...” —Pilot Officer G. Eades in his poems, “The Muse Hath Wings.” HYMN FOR AIRMEN To all who, spurning earthly joys, Seek, undismayed, the trackless way High in the wide expanse of heaven— Be Thou their help, by night and day, Thro’ fire, thro’ cloud, o’er land, o’er wave. Still be Thy presence strong to save. —C. H. Blakeney. TRUTH It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, truth is so; That, howso’er I stray and range, Whate’er I do, thou dost not change; I steadier step when I recall That, if I step, thou dost not fall. —Clough.