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. (To Georges Bernanos) ND now spring comes to the starved end blackened land where the tailless abominable angel has spent his passion; dead roots are twined through the bones of a broken hand; now death, not Schiaparelli, sets the fashion. [% the 20th Century of the Christian era the news-hawk camera man, no Botticelli, walks on this stricken earth with Primavera, and Europe cries from the heart of her hungry belly. EN flattened centuries are heaped with rubble, ten thousand vultures wheel above the plain; honour is lost and hope is like a bubble; Life is defeated, thought itself is pain. UT the bones of Charlemagne will rise and dance, and the spark ‘unquenched will kindle into flame, and the voices heard by the small maid of France will speak yet again, and give this void a Name.
A. R. D.
Fairburn
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 371, 2 August 1946, Page 12
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142EUROPE New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 371, 2 August 1946, Page 12
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