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The Spike or Victoria University College Review 1931

Petition

Petition

I crave no limbless, pale infinity,
But may the keen wind from the mountains be
A cool delight, and may these shining days
Not fail to fill my heart with ready praise.
Make me aware of dancing shade and trees,
The flight of gulls above calm gleaming seas,
The joy of beauty shared, yet silently.

May I remember rivers, dark and free,
That fall in clouds of spray where rainbows dwell:
How the lights in the wind-tossed ocean wave
Net rainbows too; and bow the waters swell
Around the mossgreen rocks, and ever lave
The drooping manuka—oh, always, loveliness
Will linger there! But when the riro calls
In vain, and when this vivid happiness
Leaps not to welcome all of beauty born,
Then, in the sunlight on some windy morn,
Take thou my ashes, climb that ancient hill
That shadows thee with peace. There shalt thou spill
My dust, immortal only in thy memory.

Hephaestus.