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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 1, No. 3. March 23, 1938

I Demand the Ultimate Death

I Demand the Ultimate Death

I demand the ultimate death of this war
because to took at myself in the current like a [unclear: gricrous] body mortified
I wish, at the free they rob of its fruits, tearing but its branches
and [unclear: profiting] from its [unclear: trunk] made a log . . .

And it I cannot see myself
if only my roots remain:
if the birds seek rainly
the place of their rests
in the sad absences of my arms.
then, from the depths,
with the silence of the spring.
will pour forth from the earth like a lament
insinuations of [unclear: rerduce] and life.
I shall be that multitude of adolescents.
that [unclear: cro] of laurel which binds
the trunk struck down by are.
[unclear: Multiplied] life from death
Multiple are the pays of dawn.

(Translated from the Spanish of Manuel [unclear: Auolaguirre] by Stephen Spender.)