BONES
7OU, this bone beside me (bright bone) Time can but make as beautiful as the sun, Though weighted years like seas Reduce the tallest trees To the glitter of a printed leat on a stone. You, the faith that these dry bones (lost bones) Shall get up together and walk in all their pride In the bright darkness of some loved countryside Where a spring drips over stones And a mist grows out of the ground; The luminous calm after pain That lends its grace To whatever is swift and beautiful And shall not remain; That shattered stone face That tells of a once passionate time-buried race.
Alistair
Campbell
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 895, 28 September 1956, Page 24
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110BONES New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 895, 28 September 1956, Page 24
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