THE HUNGRY
[HEN when the spring comes they open the library windows, Let in the green masses of the chestnut trees And the feel of the river sliding between green banks. [RE touch of books in this cool room fails To waken now the required responses, Life do not pass by! Scarcely aware of heart cry turn we over dead pages, M ASKING with customary skill our hungry eyes, Whispering over and over how important the whole pageant Adam to MacArthur; yet they too woke desolate, W EEPING for love on a spring morning. Afterwards calm How would they lead them, the first sons, then soldiers? No, more courting immortal merit than most, but knowing , [RE thing to be done, now. We in the twilight Pause, we wonder. Are the lovers beside the river In bright garments wiser than we? Are the | IVING the ones who live on? The half-dead ' Hand in the dusk trembles, 8ropes towards contact With warmer earth with lips, giving complete meaning T° the long saga, knowing at last what inhabits The page after all; the living, the bright loved ones,
And the feel of the river, calm, in its green banks. a+ eS a
Paul
Henderson
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 659, 22 February 1952, Page 11
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201THE HUNGRY New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 659, 22 February 1952, Page 11
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