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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21575, 10 February 1940, Page 10

Among the last poems written by Humbert Wolfe, who died early in January, would have been the following short piece entitled “Dachau” which was published in the Observer, London: — I thought of the concentration camps and the tortured men. And, as I began to dream of vengeance and dark reprisal, Of the shocking retort that, being denied by life, denies all, A voice whispered deeo in my heart, “Have they triumphed again?” The following poem entitled “To the Veterans” was written by Sir John Squire and published first in The Times: — Your Peace, she never came of age. That Peace you bought with bitter price; Nor now survives in this dull rage One sign of all your sacrifice. A risen Fiend! A faded goal! These trampled lands, this wasted sky Keep no surprises for the soul Either of hope or agony! O, if we fail in this mischance. Not you alone we shall betray. But all our long inheritance Since the first dreamers lost the day!