WHITE, DARK
"Mountains have been in all my life and in different ways," (Recollections of a Mountaineer) Despising the easy streets’ and simpering plain, Adjuring to peril, towers of teasing white: They could only take yes from my admiring look, And from the spirit prompting hands and feet, Not one such but the many mighty stood, Posing their proud significance, they lifted Me from the tinkling callow carnival : To the mature silence and grief to cast a man. Mountains white, dark, piercing the midnight, Lovers’ revolt, revelation, anger. Volcanic after many days and no Return to understanding, death in disputes The flat deceit of snow where a foot may. Touch the trigger of an avalanche. And one word releasing a mountain side Of sorrow, leaves a mountain in the’ mind. And that black mountain closing every road That outsoars every sun-requited peak. That, too, is with me as a promised climb, My lite to plan a favourable ‘approach.
J. R.
Hervey
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 670, 9 May 1952, Page 5
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161WHITE, DARK New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 670, 9 May 1952, Page 5
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