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The Spike: or, Victoria University College Review October, 1920

Anzac Day

Anzac Day

Solemn, magnificently sad,
Conquered by music that is full
Of graves and splendid sacrifice,
Listening to some low ministering voice
And seeing
Sights that could never be—
Poor souls! you look so strangely
At one tired woman who has lost two sons
And does not weep.

I watch you wistfully
And think
What tragedians you are—
In grief so dignified, and yet
Knowing so little of the scheme of things:
I watch you gaze askance
At one tired woman who has had no son—
Why should she weep?

W.E.L.

"The Editor will be pleased to hear of the death of any past students of the College."

—Seen in contemporary college magazine.

Sketch of male head

An Irish-economist-lawyer is this:
The serpent has gone but has left us the hiss;
A man of the world who sees everything through
An economist's eyes—an an Irishman's, too!

H.M.