IN DUE SEASON (By “ Whim Wham ” in the Christchurch Press) The aching Earth revolves, to bring Another South Pacific Spring. Strong Columns of advancing Green Re-occupy the changing Scene. Life detonates and blows apart The drab Defences of the Heart, Where Hopes are joined by fresh Divisions And Fears withdraw to new Positions. Now Europe’s Days are drawing in» As Summer’s Battered Ranks grow thin. To anxious Eyes return too soon The long Night and the Bomber’s Moon. Soon Winter’s Siege will settle down About each scarred and weary Town, And the grim Flight resume, to hold The Thrusts of Hynger and of ColdRound go the Seasons, and the Earth Performs its Rite of Death and Birth. Mankind alone can find a Reason For Death both in and out of Season. Mankind alone has yet to learn That each Desire must take its Turn: That no imaginable Gun Can blast a Passage for the Sun.
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 65, Issue 5525, 16 September 1942, Page 4
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