25 OCTOBER 1946, Page 13

TWO VOICES

"DON'T dive from Time: don't leave this sea-girt land One single moment. Plait the brittle bents, Build castles that will fall as sea-struck tents ;

Ransack Time's treasures ; work to understand The systems whirling in each grain of sand. Don't dive! Recall your former reascents-

Smarting with salt-stung grazes, numb with dents—

Don't dally diving! Learn how Time is planned.

"This ocean heals the things that split ashore: Here words that broke at Babel reunite, Here atom bombs revert to quiet ore And rainbows are refracted back to white.

Here Good and Evil coalesce once more, Here Time is spellbound—noon envelops night."

E. H. M. GEORGESON.