The Spike or Victoria College Review 1941
Intelligentsia
Intelligentsia
We to whom consciousness means
Betraying our class,
Over whom the future leans,
A welcome nemesis,
Can we strike those final blows
Welding heart and brain
To end ourselves and our foes—
Letting in the dawn?
Rubicon between thought and act
Has sufficient source
In cowardice, love, and the fact
Of relative ease;
Only those who, looking behind,
See retreat cut off
Will face this torrent and find
Coherent life.
H.W.