4 JULY 1958, Page 31

Two Poems

GHES

By TED HU

Crag Jack's Apostasy

I do not desire to change my ways, But now call continually On you, god or not god, who Come to my sleeping body through The world under the world; pray That I may see more than your eyes

In an animal's dreamed head; that I shall—

Waking, dragged suddenly From a choir-shaken height By the world, lord, and its dayfall- Keep more than the memory Of a wolf's head, of eagles' feet. The churches, lord, all the dark churches Stooped over my cradle once : I came clear, but my god's down Under the weight of all that stone : Both my power and my luck since Have kicked at the world and slept in ditches.