Library of the Deceased
HESE books, perhaps not for you nor me, . Not remote pastures in which to replenish The spirit’s energy: Yet this and more they were to him. Keys that commanded surprising doors, Lights growing out of the void when thought was dim. [BRESE were his windows to the world, Having learnt life he put his books away: y But here he drank, here thrust a torch, Against whatever desert, whatever dark. OT frittered like a breath, But reader turned pilgrim, And wearing amulets wrung from these redoubtable priests, Shall he not prevail -§
To read a radiance on the walls of death?
J. R.
Hervey
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 430, 19 September 1947, Page 13
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107Library of the Deceased New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 430, 19 September 1947, Page 13
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