| Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918. |
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| 114. O White Wind, numbing the World |
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| O WHITE wind, numbing the world | |
| to a mask of suffering hate! | |
| and thy goblin pipes have skirl’d | |
| all night, at my broken gate. | |
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| O heart, be hidden and kept | 5 |
| in a half-light colour’d and warm, | |
| and call on thy dreams that have slept | |
| to charm thee from hate and harm. | |
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| They are gone, for I might not keep; | |
| my sense is beaten and dinn’d; | 10 |
| there is no peace but a grey sleep | |
| in the pause of the wind. | |
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