2 OCTOBER 1953, Page 12

Observers

Grown granite-hard they stand in spite of buffets And eyes once mild have chilled to bleak precision, Broken and bruised their power of transmut- ing Bodies or bricks to glory through their vision ; And hearts lacking fuel must cool; now none Of them would turn his accurate head to see Great Agammemnon sacrifice his daughter Or a limp saviour lolling from a tree.

LAIN HAMILTON.