Burial At Sea, Off France
IRMAN, your eager spirit fled, Too long you rolled in the tide Unkeedingly, unheeded, now not wedded To those bright wings, now dead; 5 Breese da the sodden papers from your side, What could we do more, with clumsy prayer, Than give you again to the deep In which: you died? ce you, we saw the lives that each In plane, ship, tank or landing craft Hoped to preserve yet thrust Numberless, nameless, to the desperate beach, NECESSITY compelling. But loss Even of the ultimate breath And body of being meant more Than sad wreckage the waves tossed: you: airman, from "the cloud Spinning on that last sortie Played your unwished-for part, Making our triumph less proud.
Denis
Glover
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 283, 24 November 1944, Page 15
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