PORTRAIT OF AN EDITOR
PERHAPS in solitary, awful state he sits, ' Like some lone eagle on his craggy throne, Remote beyond his silent ramparts from The world that seeks him. Brooding there alone, Hemmed in by countless words, by endless strearns Of would-be writers’ cherished hopes and dreams, ERHAPS with weary eye he swiftly scans The songs to spring, outpourings to the moon, And wonders why some scribe could not aspire To write a sonnet to a steak at noon. The while his pencil, merciless and blue, : Makes mincemeat of the spring and love that’s true. AND maybe he is human after all, No rough-hewn eagle on his craggy shelf, But just a man who knows the lonely road Because he climbed each cleft and rise himself. He kills our hopes and tears our dreams to shreds That we may weave again, with finer threads.
Nancy
Bruce
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 444, 26 December 1947, Page 11
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147PORTRAIT OF AN EDITOR New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 444, 26 December 1947, Page 11
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