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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 10, No. 4. April 23, 1947

Pensees

Pensees

I
Youth's memories I strewed into a ring
Entered within it to dance and sing;
Sorrow tied my body with her chain,
Imprisoned there I cried in vain;
Age heard my pleadings and with haste
Brought death for me to embrace.

II
Falsehood met Delusion on a road
Both carried a heavy load,
Blind and obstructed by the pool of Truth,
Fell in and were drowned at Youth.

III
Love was drinking in the tavern with Right.
Intoxicated with the wine of Delight
She struck the countenance of her host
And trod without regret into the night.

—O.H.