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The Spike or Victoria University College Review 1932

Wonder

Wonder

The men of science tell me these were wares
Freed from the sun eight minutes since, and sent
Vibrating through the ether—hosts unpent,
Speeding with varied pulses to their graves
In far-off globes . . . My world drank in a part,
But flung a few stray beams to pass unchecked
Into my eye's small clearness, to affect
The retinal film, nerve-impulses to start . . .
I cannot understand. I only know
That all around is colour—greens that change
From leaf to leaf: blue heaven; and insects strange;
Green lawns where gay-apparelled women go;
And riotous gardens where the flowers glow warm—
A world of colour in a world of form.

—Esme T.