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The Spike or Victoria University College Review 1932

Envoy

Envoy

I find the ending of it all,
That wild-eyed grief can never know
The stars delight to mourn the fall
Of Nineveh and Jericho.

Beneath the rugged arch of Time
They watch the endless ebb and flow,
The crazy hope, the futile climb
Of Rome and Athens, Jericho.

And here the full that man may learn
Enshrined in stars, decayed in earth—
That while the prince and peasant yearn
The gods incline in ancient mirth.

—Jesting Pilate.