Sonnet
EAR not the new, to-morrow gives it age, Let no time-ravelled usage dim your eyes, Fresh vision promises fresh heritage, Young seed springs strongest where old herbage dies. Some cadence which a lonely flute begins, Echoed by horns again, more stridently, Shall yet inspire the waiting violins, And dominant rise to crown a symphony. This seeming ill the future good may be; Old customs, too long cherished, court decay; Time holds no nemesis, his wheel spins free; Set eager fingers to its formless clay, . Yours the design, and yours the tashioning; s O, brave new generation, wake and sing!
Dorothy Ann
Beavis
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 115, 5 September 1941, Page 43
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103Sonnet New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 115, 5 September 1941, Page 43
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