With Apologies To Omar
ERE with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, | A Jug of Wine, a Book of Verse, and ThouSinging beside me in the erness--And Wilderness is Paradise enow. For though the taindrops trickle down my neck, And squelch beneath the matting on the floor, , And bounce upon the Book, the Bread, the Wine, That Thou, my dearest, added to our store, lt must be Paradise if Omar said That Wilderness needs Thou, and Wine, and Bread He asked no more, so why should I complain lf Paradise is just a trifle wet, And sirens shriek above in wild lament, And if I stretch a leg, more ' damp I get? But would Khayyam’s philosophy remain, When crouching in a slit trench in the rain?
M. D.
Webster
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 146, 10 April 1942, Page 8
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130With Apologies To Omar New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 146, 10 April 1942, Page 8
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