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Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918.

By Christopher J. Brennan

114 . O White Wind, numbing the World

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.

O heart, be hidden and kept

in a half-light colour’d and warm,

and call on thy dreams that have slept

to charm thee from hate and harm.

They are gone, for I might not keep;

my sense is beaten and dinn’d;

there is no peace but a grey sleep

in the pause of the wind.