MISS GARTH
SHE lived alone but often she was seen Like a neglected bloom in her small bay-window: No waves swept over her but ripples Were the motions of her modest world. Never had she been young, even her hat Was ageless and time, repenting her ruined face, Now passed her by and left her, rocklike. Confronting whatever doom With old-fashioned placidity. She went under one shadow. The iron god of duty. And, because of his adorable exactions, She trampled her corns with a mattyr’s relish. The hearts of children were not bruised By this survival of a stiffer age. But she conferred an inexplicable good
Like flowers that surprise a flinty place. o — 4
J. R.
Hervey
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 778, 18 June 1954, Page 15
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118MISS GARTH New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 778, 18 June 1954, Page 15
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