11 FEBRUARY 1938, page 12

An Abandoned Church Roofless And Eyeless, Weed-sodden,...

Fickly the sunset glimmered through the rain, Gilded the gravestones—faded out again ; A storm-cock shrilled its aeon-old refrain, Lambs bleated from their fold.......

In The Local Museum

THEY stood—rain pelting at window ; shrouded sea — Tenderly hand in hand; too happy to talk ; And there—its amorous eye intent on me— Plautus impennis, the extinct Great Auk.......

It Was Good At First. All Day I Had The

place to myself : I could write, or read as long as I wished. Often if the writing was going well I would not trouble about luncheon, but went on writing until Norah returned in......

September Night •

THAT shining moon—watched by that one faint star : Sure now am I, beyond the fear of change, The lovely in life is the familiar, And only the lovelier for continuing strange.......

Some Days I Went For Walks. Long Aimless Walks, Round

the streets and perhaps into the forest beyond the suburb. I walked all over the forest ; enjoying the quiet, and the sound of birds, the feel of soft grass under my feet. Miles......

I Was Tmemployed,, Living In Lodgings. They Were York- Shiie

people, and they looked after me and fed me well for t7s.,,which was all I was able to give them ; 175. is all you get on the dole. I could feel them wanting me to get a job ;......

Mental

PARCHED, panting, he awoke—phantasmal light Haunting the hollows of his fevered eyes— And muttered of his journeyings in the night, Striving in words the vision to devise :— An......