Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 9, No. 9. July, 24, 1946
Lesson in the Morgue
Lesson in the Morgue
Revolt is unpersisting.
since from this flaccid frame
blood flowed to water.
Abject—
objective—on a stone,
emotionless; recumbent;
dankly drear ....
Dawn shivers in the culm
of after-starlight. He remains
inert, unmotivated, still—
his soul a vast oblivion.
"Shall we go?"
O cataclysm!
A pointing finger this. And we?
we shall forget.
Maurice James