3 AUGUST 1951, Page 9

Tourists, Oxford, 1951

THE crumbling walls receive Their annual renewal, by the sight

Of a thousand searching eyes. Cameras flicker: I am pinned Lepidopterous in the arch Of my staircase, and condemned To a moment's perpetuity ; Reappearing, poised in time, Gowned and glossy-eyed. Snap-shot against a wall, I halt Time, and live— Through film apd fixative.

DAVID WAINWRIORT.