In Due Season
(By
WHIM-WHAM
+ antes aching Earth revolves, to bring Another South Pacific Spring; Strong Columns of advancing Green Reoccupy the changing Scene, Life detonates, and blows apart The drab Defences of the Heart, Where Hopes are joined by fresh Divisions And Fears withdraw to new Positions, Now Europe’s Days are drawing in, er battered Ranks grow ny To anxious Eyes return too soon The long Night and the Bomber’s Moon; Soon Winter’s Siege will settle down About each scarred and weary Town, And the grim Fight resume, to hold The Thrusts of Hunger and of Cold. OUND go the Seasons, and the Earth J Performs its Rite of Death and Birth. Mankind alone can find a Reason For Death both in and out of Season; Mankind alone has yet to learn That each Desire must take its Turn, That no imaginable Gun Can blast a Passage for the Sun. I
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 168, 11 September 1942, Page 11
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152In Due Season New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 168, 11 September 1942, Page 11
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