DUNEDIN REVISITED
A MOUNTAIN like a beast ' Is crouched in the north (Where there is only trouble And the political bubble), T? the south Lies a great tiver’s mouth. [/NDER Flagstaff’s boulders Beds the town; and the houses Complacent over one another’s shoulders Look on a harbour pleasant as a pond -With grate-crashing rollers just beyond Where remotely the sugared island still Winters in the Pacific’s hug and maul. VER the harbour waters A slow-gonged clock Floats the hours and the quarters. FROM the quarry, all day without shock Comes the hill-deadened, water-damped Sound of explosions; and haunting The frost-quiet of midnight The redundant the echoing Bull-breath of shunting. ORE eloquent than speech In probing the dreamlike past And answering the reproach By time’s soft-fingered shadow cast, The spires fly heavenward, LONG sunset spills On those returning And the manuka hills Know the slow smoke of burning.
Denis
Glover
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 466, 28 May 1948, Page 9
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149DUNEDIN REVISITED New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 466, 28 May 1948, Page 9
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