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QLEEPING and waking are a glass wherein " The fitful turnings of our life are seen, Swift issue out of virtue into sin, One moment pure and the next obscene. Who knows the mystery of our twisting path, Youth into manhood, love to the dead of loving, Strength into age, submission into wrath, Sorrow to joy and stillness into moving? In change is travail. There the unsure mind, Rett of direction, loses its frail power, Forgets the password in the uncertain hour And stands rejected. O dark earth, grow kind, And let these words fit intercession make For them that fall asleep, or, sleeping, wake.
Arthur
Barker
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 789, 3 September 1954, Page 11
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107SONNET New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 789, 3 September 1954, Page 11
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