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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 14, No. 11. September 6, 1951

Sonnet

Sonnet

Make visible music, oh my heart make
great with song one hour, one sweet time
mine. Make merry with wind and break
if must, if may; but make one rhyme
dearer than rest, nearer the hour that was
love. Then, if must, hear the carnal drums
calling the issues of transpontine wars—
the time that rouses, reaches, comes
baring its teeth. But yet awhile
is the hour for the flower to smile,
for the word be near the heart of matter.
Whatever may happen to bleed, scatter
one light, song, make one moment right
before love bleeds and falls the war-locked night.