SONG OF THE FREEMAN'S CHILD
N the nurseries of hunger 1 lay without a name When streets rose up in anger And the tall bombers came. The winter was my father, A shaggy cape he wore; And my mother came and laid me At the world’s kitchen door. Rank I grew as the greedy grass Around the pavement stone, . Fearing the strong policemen With their steel helmets on: High in the heavenly places The well-fed angels stand Who give the bread of the harvest field With a grudging hand. Tomorrow I shall call my own a The earth that they denied; Sleep light in stolen linen
With a rifle at my side
James K.
Baxter
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 796, 22 October 1954, Page 13
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115SONG OF THE FREEMAN'S CHILD New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 796, 22 October 1954, Page 13
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