Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Student's Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 5. April 2 1968
Creation
Creation
"Earth was still an empty waste
And darkness hung upon the deep.
Two went alone in the blind night
Floating like flotsam in the black
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And were lost to each other.
His words in the bass
Haunt the solemn woodwind
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Softly glittering on the glinting
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The light brays from the brash
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The flame burned in man's blood
Whose deed was the bard's mead:
God saw it—and saw that it was
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It brought us together for a
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Enclaved alone from the shrieking
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Until an Ilian fate savagely tore us
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Needing so one and the other.