FOR THE PARENTS
HE child of a single summer is laid In earth’s winter shade; Soul of light, to light Returned, is your last legacy Rebellion, unsolaced injury? The mother who fashioned you shall wear The comfortless veil of self-despair Until age remove Even this vanity to bestow A gaze pacific with sorrow. This calculating sire, with impatient hands Casts about his prosperous lands For a single fault to match His immensurable distress, Weighing justice with injustice. No tears nor sense of corrupt equity Move death’s adamantine sea To cast upon the heart’s shore Where dark surfs fret, One syllable of her secret. Bud untimely broken, the bending flower Interrogates the indifferent air; All golden briefly been, Withered leaves lie Scattered by the wind’s reply. Only the foundling faith, hopes harbinger, Gift of their wedding yearOrphaned too soon, will make At the end of this summer season A new rhyme for their reason. Dao
Colin
Newbury
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 8
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156FOR THE PARENTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 8
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