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"HERE is a road by trees and down by water lovers have come as nebulous as stars through the pale evening and as free as laughter found the night fruitful there, and waiting, theirs. Others, by day, have suffered from the dust and slaked small fevers at the watercourse finding its taste as bitter as their sweat, noticing, after, how the road seemed worse. While some have not seen anything at all ~ of trees, the lovers, dust, or waterway, their eyes being upon the distant palace fading béfore them with dividing day. Shall we say which we choose or how we come since each, making his claim, may prove the lie spreads black as flies upon his tongue, and none sure that he is not all--both beast and beauty?
Louis
Johnson
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 740, 18 September 1953, Page 11
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132RIDDLE New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 740, 18 September 1953, Page 11
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