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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25, No. 5. 1962.
Ode Composed on Poppy day, April 13, 1962
Ode Composed on Poppy day, April 13, 1962
Here lies this tattered rose
Line 3: "This vast unlighted room Is a symbol of the tomb And likewise of the womb." "Sweeniad" by "Myra Battle" Line 5: Macbeth by Jacques Pore . . . modern spelling recommended by that eminent and vinle post and critic Ezra Pound in his "A B C of Reading"—recommonded reading for Primer I students. Line 9:"This is a phenomenon 1 have often noticed. Line 15: "Ash-Wednesday" and "Prufrock" by Mr T. S. Eliot. Line 18: Traditional. Line 20: Take Your pick. Line 25: "The Art of Cooking Haggis"—"Dine With Elizabeth" publ. by Blundell Bros.
Symbol of my fate,
Who have passed thru' my life of late,
That is, the girls that I have known
I gave most fulsome praise,
To me contempt have shown.
10 This rose is faithful yet,
Still keeps its holy stench
Far better than a pet-
ting session or a naughty wench.
But I have had good times of yore,
I'm twenty-two and quite a bore,
My bones are growing cold,
I should have brought my spectacles;
Would try to be respectable.
But this dead rose, it is my fate
Which I cannot beat,
I never, never can escape—
"Anzac"