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Title: The Last Camp
Author: Alun Falconer
In: Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 9, No. 3. April 13, 1946
Publication details: Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association, 13 April 1946, Wellington
Part of: Salient : An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z.
Keywords: New Zealand History
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The candle is a smear of war, Thought guttered out, And I wake weary as the creaking door.
Thrushes in the rain-soaked tree Call lazily. Faint echo losing in the misty hills.
The calm indifferent smoke Adds blue to grey. Roll up the blankets for another day.
—Alun Falconer.