CONTRAST
HAVE a gay and streamlined home ’ Set high on a windswept rise, With a view of the shore and the scudding foam And the changing western skies. And a bent old woman lives down below In a house worn grey with years, Four-square to the gap where the westerlies blow, And the paint peeled from its ears. | VE sat in my all-electric house ~ And watched on a winter day While the little old woman’s ageing spouse Hauled driftwood from the bay. I've lain at night while the rain beat down On our tiles with a muffled tread, And known that their roof iron, rusted brown, Would echo to wake the dead, UT now I would trade my dream home in, If they would but trade with me For the drab frame house where the westerlies spin Clean in from the open sea. Oh, who would have thought that I could change To envying their lot? But they have a squat and ugly range That makes their water hot!
Nancy
Bruce
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 462, 30 April 1948, Page 11
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171CONTRAST New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 462, 30 April 1948, Page 11
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