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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 14, No. 6. June 7, 1951

Kapiti

Kapiti

Far above the sleepless sea
The moon casts out its borrowed brilliance
In a sword of dancing shadowed darkness,
That sparkles where it strikes
The moving foam of beating waves,
Alters swiftly ere the pattern breaks
And forms anew a living chain
Of cold white liquid light.
While softly at its farthest tip
There rises from the water's edge
The ghostly silent shape of Kapiti,
Majcstic—half revealed in mist
That soothes and softens as it clings
To twist the hard earth's shape
And melt it into sky.

The stars wait empty in the air
As far along the sand
A line of footprints leads
To where I stand.

F. L. Curtin.