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BIRTH
Fix this textPrice Threepence
Fix this textEdited by Bernard O’Dowd
Fix this textVOL. 3
Fix this textSEPTEMBER, 1919
Fix this textNo. 34
Fix this textDOUBT.
Fix this textWhere is the haven of our onward winging?
Fix this textIs it the voiceless bourne from whence we came;
Fix this textWill silence be the end of all our singing,
Fix this textOr angels chant the carol of our fame?
Fix this textFrom the great darkness into darkness flying?
Fix this textOr into the rich radiances that stream
Fix this textIn visioned vales from sins of faith undying,
Fix this text. And star-built palaces of happy dream?
Fix this textWhither so strangely are we onward fleeting
Fix this textLike birds across a sky of storm and shine—
Fix this textIs it a flight that ends with vain wings beating
Fix this textBeneath rude waves of sorrow’s bitter brine?
Fix this textWith aching pinions onward ever straining
Fix this textThrough hail and icy rains that fall and freeze—
Fix this textWill soaring stars for ever mock our gaining,
Fix this textOr are there halcyon isles beyond grim seas?
Fix this textHenry Tate.
Fix this textWINTER.
Fix this textThey lie who say he comes in darkening days,
Fix this textAn old man, broken, wandering wearily,
Fix this textWith dirges sadder than the moaning sea,
Fix this textHis scrip blown by the wanton wind that plays
Fix this textUpon his head, for oft in unleashed ways
Fix this textI’ve met him, bound down in captivity,
Fix this textYet proud and ever struggling to be free,
Fix this textA youth, yet victor in a thousand frays.
Fix this textAnd I have seen the freightage that he brings,
Fix this textThe wattle banners stolen from northern lands,
Fix this textWhite clematis around the trees he flings,
Fix this textGay heaths are strewn from both his outstretched
Fix this texthands,
Fix this textAnd even while clampt by freezing frost-made
Fix this textbands
Fix this textHope is the motif of the song he sings.
Fix this textG. B.
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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