HONEYMOON SCENE REVISITED
ND here is the road that was carpeted With all the chronicles of love, And the hedges thrusting fabulous favouts Under an atch of skylarks, And the hills meditating but reaching Never our rich corclusionBut the silver mountain beyond Sheathing a sharpened future. ~ The time was a sonnet’s resounding final couplet. Out master work recorded for The strings of the years. And now, still the pondering hills, The skylarks untouched by terror, The hedges consuming death, and, I alone
Starveling, feeding on echo:
J. R.
Hervey
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 772, 7 May 1954, Page 15
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89HONEYMOON SCENE REVISITED New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 772, 7 May 1954, Page 15
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