Stand To
HE leng wave lingers on the remembered beach Where we boiled the billy on the sunlit sand-dunes (And it may be memory, like the other dead, Should be decently interred when the spirit has departed.) O-NIGHT there is the murmur of our male voices, The sibilant wind in last week’s wiring, The lean steel scarecrow of the bren-mounting, The helmet silhouetted in the moonlight, And blandly, over all, the romantic crescent f Garlanding our bayonets on the revetment. TARE stare once more at the quiet but portentous sea Till stars dissolve in the awakening blue, Back to bunks and the blankets’ lonely caress Leaving the sentry with the spectacular sunrise. HE long wave lingers on the remembered beach, Memory like the sleepers stirs her uneasy limbs, And it may be before it is entirely torgotten Maybe the day will dawn. : PILE the kids once again in the crowded car, Pack the primus, the rugs, and the sandwiches, The pail tor the pebbles and sand and seaweed, The camera to catch the innocent attitude, The volume tor the lazy afternoon, And head for last year’s bay. Where on the remembered beach The long wave lingers.
"Written for "The Listener " by
IAN A.
GORDON
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 179, 27 November 1942, Page 7
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