FAITH
ON Thursday last, you and I, accustomed to our ease
Seated before the fire, legs up, a book upon our kneel, Listened with cool detachment To the News at 9 o'clock.
" Heigh ho! " you said, " Thank heavens that von Bock Is held." And then, with forty million others We smiled with satisfaction.
Forty million armchair listeners-in Switched off before the Air Force bulletin.
We were not interested to hear The voice of the announcer say: " Two Typhoons patrolling in the South today Failed to return to base.
One of our pilots is safe."
On Monday, on The Times front page I read A notice in memoriam of the dead From " Pamela," Referring briefly to the death On Thursday last of Michael . . . R.A.F.
And beneath it was this monument of faith: "One of our pilots is safe." NIGEL TANGYE.
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