The unreturning – (Craig R. Barrett) Previous Next


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Size: 400 x 90 cm

Museum: Shrine of Remembrance (Melbourne, Australia)

Technique: Oil

The unreturningSuddenly night crushed out the day and hurledHer remnants over cloud-peaks, thunder-walled.Then fell a stillness such as harks appalledWhen far-gone dead return upon the world.There watched I for the Dead; but no ghost woke.Each one whom Life exiled I named and called.But they were all too far, or dumbed, or thralled,And never one fared back to me or spoke.Then peered the indefinite unshapen dawnWith vacant gloaming, sad as half-lit minds,The weak-limned hour when sick men

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