NEW ZEALAND POET
PERHAPS one could have gone into the church and earned his bread apportioning the host; or lectured students, carrying a torch meanwhile for Donne or Blake; or lost an urge for occupation in the files of a great State department. Even could wear thin a yen for words by treading miles of journalism flatly with his pen; and hide the echo of remorse by. the bar-pump. Otherwise is the road and the open hand as quick to greet as it is swift to thump hard at his word which would define the land. PRIESTHOODS nor presents help, still will he feel guilt and unease before them in the streets whose eyes demand he keep in step and nail his hands upon their cross and suffer their defeats.
Louis
Johnson
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 658, 15 February 1952, Page 10
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132NEW ZEALAND POET New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 658, 15 February 1952, Page 10
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