Conviction IV

The pleasures of friendship are exquisite, How pleasant to go to a friend on a visit! I go to my friend, we walk on the grass, And the hours and moments like minutes pass.

The lions who ate the Christians on the sands of the By indulging native appetites played was now been seen Not entirely negligible In consolidating at the very

I always remember your beautiful And the beautiful kimono you When you sat on the With that tigerish

Why is the word pretty so underrated? In November the leaf is pretty when it falls The stream grows deep in the woods after rain And in the pretty pool the pike stalks He stalks his prey, and this is pretty too, The prey escapes with an…

There is a face I know too well, A face I dread to see, So vain it is, so eloquent Of all futility. It is a human face that hides A monkey soul within

I walked abroad in Easter Park, I heard the wild dog's distant bark, I knew my Lord was risen again, -Wild dog, wild dog, you bark in vain.

After reading Dr Rieu’s translation of St Mark’s Gospel. Who is this that comes in splendour, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ. Airy, in an airy manner in an airy parkland…

Dearest Evelyn, I often think of Out with the guns in the jungle Yesterday I hittapotamusI put the measurements down for you but they got lost in the