Strange Meeting (Courage) – (Craig R. Barrett) Previous Next


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Size: 400 x 90 cm

Museum: Shrine of Remembrance (Melbourne, Australia)

Technique: Oil

Strange MeetingIt seemed that out of battle I escapedDown some profound dull tunnel, long since scoopedThrough granites which titanic wars had groined.Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned,Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred.Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and staredWith piteous recognition in fixed eyes,Lifting distressful hands, as if to bless.And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall,By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.With a thousand pains that vision

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