MAN ON A RAFT
NOT out of the war, not out of the agitated House of life and wearing the brand of love. He is yet no more than the diving bird between Wave and wave. CONEY one is near, only one regards death ‘In the stare of the sky, in the cold watch of water: And who but death trundles the eccentric toy, The dancing timber. : Bur always he skirted the vortex of disaster, For the crazy earth carried him and lost him Among the witless stars and huostile calms, Smothering knowledge. H's days have sickened in the heavy perfume Of death hanging a flower on every season: His hope has stumbled over crooked stones, » Pretending sleep. JV HERE shall be his landfall who resigns The rudder, whose hands, twingods of design, Are but fists that threaten doom _ and beat like flowers. On the iton doors? y#T the rag at the mast was valid, it persuaded The clean prow of love, and the ‘man on the raft , ’ Climbed to the assured deck, the ’ rational voyage, Drowning fear.
J. R.
Hervey
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 234, 17 December 1943, Page 17
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181MAN ON A RAFT New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 234, 17 December 1943, Page 17
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