19 JULY 1957, page 35

The Outcome

Exasperatedly I hack and break Out through the bladed chains the briars make All round my grimed shoes. Cobweb-black I stand Beside where concrete broad as a runway Smooth as a......

The Great War

By ROBERT BLAKE L ice Talleyrand, who maintained that the true douceur de vivre had been experienced only by those who lived before 1789, mankind has all down history looked......

Meeting

He smiles in a mirror, shrinking the whole Sun-swung zodiac of light to a trinket shape On the rise of his eye : it is a role In which he can fling a cape, And outlobm life like......