To An Old-Timer
p. 27 · Read in the full issue
IN memoriam: William Simpson, died at Samarai, March 9, 1939.
The night comes on, and so it’s time to go.
Now on the hills the blueness dims to grey, The black-etched palms are still, and far away The tide sings on the reef. Old Man, you know It all: the sunset and the dawn, the glow Of splendid youth, when every changing day Brings gifts, handclasps of friends, the lonely way By tangled track and swamp, the broken flow Of rapids, and the opal seas. And yet It’s well to cast the load of weary years, To ease the pack, and rest, While old friends tell Their stories of the struggle and the sweat.
And, since they pass, the laughter and the tears, It’s time to go. The night comes on sleep well!
F.
Samarai, Papua.
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