Endurance In Wartime
Although the ultimate for some be bone And crushed flesh wearying to clay; Though in a broken furrow man has sown The bitter seed of death; and though the day Has grown so dark and horrid none may see; And though in diverse form, by diverse threat, Earth is demanding back the town, the tree, Although the tower, the book, the mind is yet Inadequate; though children cry for bread; Though all that has been built be dust again, And man, distraught, stands gazing on the dead; Though earth take back the forest and the plain, The gems, the bright white metal and the ore; There still remains with us inviolate This light, this stuff, this leavening, this core, This thing, which, not of earth, is yet earth’s fate. And she may vent her anger in the air, Or drown men’s bodies in the sweeping sea, Hers is the final vengeance, but more rare, Man's is the final, grand, integrity. -lIsobel Andrews
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 74, 22 November 1940, Page 49
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165Endurance In Wartime New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 74, 22 November 1940, Page 49
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