Displaced Persons
IKE trees they stood behind a wall of contentment, The winds knew them, the soil was obedient To their devoted touch, the years found them Always the bondmen te place, rooted with the rocks.’ O vision raised them above the forbidding hills, Ambition the incendiary spared their harvest of peace: No highway to the world, but the gentle roads Returned them to home, preserved the dear design. UT the anchor of their desire could not resist The fiery storm and they were carried like dust Across the world to rest in a field of pain. In a hissing land whose stare was very death. BOWED and dumb, fost in a thicket of hate. How shall they find the way to the lap of homeWhile on their shoulder heavy the stranger’s hand. How shall they keep the old appointment with joy?
J. R.
Hervey
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 368, 12 July 1946, Page 29
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145Displaced Persons New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 368, 12 July 1946, Page 29
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