Glacier
[ RAVELLER on no light foot pitting the earth With your determined tread, devouring stones, And sinewed with snow and frost, your strength sears The indomitable mountain, your strength lies Huge and bestial, an unhurried hate, Your slow anger meditates a goal. OU flout the walls that grip you, nothing turns Your solid evil pace, and though the sun Bring peace like a perching bird deep thereunder Destruction growls, and though you wear the snow Like innocence the buried will is guilt: OW look on the wandering threat, how teel With feet the iron challenge? No one goes free Though wide the sunlight and the wing of peace: The agile mind sits still, the spirit falls Under the spell of an eternity. OR this is purpose unleashed, here in the seert The strong unseen, purpose breaking the small And mortal dream and through the careless‘ days
And vast caress of night a purpose grinding.
J. R.
Hervey
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 546, 9 December 1949, Page 8
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157Glacier New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 546, 9 December 1949, Page 8
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