FAREWELI
(BY
SEFTON
WALSH
ONEY the wet road gleaming in the neon lights, And the cold wind, and the heart heavy and sick. NSIDE the station the. harsh hard lights, And the noise, and the crowd, ' Hurt like a sudden blow After the dark warm intimacy of the car. So much left unsaid, jostling the mind now, Pushing and pushing, choking the shy utterance, Leaving the thought unspoken, Instead, the careful commonplace, eyes wary, Keeping close guard upon the sacred things; Holding to flippancies with a desperate strength, A clanging gong-No more constraint, The built-up bars go down, and for an instant, Timeless and transient, nothing is left unsaid. Pattern of dark hair on a khaki breast, Pattern of love and rerroms life and death, Pattern of sacrifice. HE train has gone, and only the neon lights Gleam on the cold wet road, And the chill wind blows, , And the heart is a dull cold ache.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 124, 7 November 1941, Page 44
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156FAREWELI New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 124, 7 November 1941, Page 44
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