15 JUNE 1934, Page 13

Reply to the Charge of Obscurity

SPEAR plainly, else be silent. If thought hide Too hardly, none have patience to pursue. So children in their games if one abide

Too long, leave that one lost and start anew ? Yield meaning up, or else leave meaning where She's safest, in soul's silence, all her days, Maid-meaning who could not make mind up e'er He, questioning past hope, lost heart to gaze ?

0 this seems true, seems so true, but, believe, Not all yield straightway, not all straightway bring Submission. Some there are who let heart grieve Answerless for a little, then, answering, Watch how swift joy springs up as dark doubt dies, Finding a growing kindness in the eyes.

MONK GIBBON.