FOR ANNE FRANK
(who died at Buchenwald)
F this dark were to hold Would the waste in the mind grow Or bloom in its own time as another spring? So used to hope are we And a light shining ahead, To stars in the night reminding of morning That only in dreams does terror Fulfil the impossible Here where we wake to the returning Year, put off despair again, Forget the unchanging Face of Christ in a concentration camp. It is hard to imagine dark Without any light breaking, Our dreams become real, and the damp Smell of dungeons a cancer Within the soul. What bitter Flower could break, lifting its pale isite In this endless winter? Yet does: And a late spring Opens skies long shut, pouring the new w light Beyond beliet. Even we, Travelling, have crossed the ranges, Have come from the dark bush and the lonely night Into brilliant skies. And find Below the snowfield and tussock
The walls of Buchenwald standing within sight. -~ se ee
Paul
Henderson
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 738, 4 September 1953, Page 15
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172FOR ANNE FRANK New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 738, 4 September 1953, Page 15
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