11 APRIL 1941, Page 10

A SCHOOLBOY'S TRIBUTE

SIR,-ThiS is merely a schoolboy's appreciation of Virginia Woolf—a Philistine in praise of a passing greatness.

V. W.

Think upon this a soul at rest At peace for ever past life's eventide A heart though weary yet for ever blest For with the tongue of angels she replied.

And out a labyrinth of man-born strife, A tangled coil of self-inflicting pain She stole, and laying down her life She left the thought of what might be again.

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