CUTTING BLACKBERRIES
[ ENACIOUS growth: but not more so than I, )nor so resourceful or resolved to win, with greater flexibility, this dry thorn-guarded patch, make arable again. Disputed ownership: each year renews the battle for possession; the steel vine clamping sharp hooks, rusted and knotted sinews against the foundry’s magic and the man. Who, arrogant, regards this place as waste though Nature’s green to wildness always ran. Vines have their rights-but lack essential taste: will be converted by unnatural man. Here will arise the carrot-patch and greens out of disorder: tabulated borders convincing that domesticated scenes were those intended by Dame Nature’s orders. __{ pyis Johnson.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 808, 21 January 1955, Page 16
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105CUTTING BLACKBERRIES New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 808, 21 January 1955, Page 16
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