Selected Poems

I love the names of labourers’ houses best,

For their quaint spellings and the tales they tell-

Like Lennix XII, The Daisy, Clatobel, Experience Cottage, Industry, Love Nest.

I love the tough blunt pride tersely expressed In Vini Vidi Visi Me One, El

Reposa, Master Cot. I love as well

In God We Trust. and Peace, and Labour Blest.

0 golden names albeit unknown to song; Bugles still blowing splendid calls that raise The legions of the soul and set its guard;

Fixed challenges to fate; revolts ‘qainst wrong; Banners of beauty in their divers ways Triumphant over dust and grime and shard,