Delta Into Rain
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Rain and a grey mist falls, No palms swing or sway; A bird with a sad note calls Softly through the grey.
At times the quiet air sighs, Though only when in vain A wind in passing tries To lift her veil of rain.
Drenched by the weeping clouds Noon arrives and soon Solitude claims and crowds The long mute afternoon.
But patient earth abides By brooding in the rain, While misty silence glides Through corridors of pain.
As each day’s weary tread Gives way to that of night, One thought drives through my head And lingers on my sight— O, to wake and find The tassel and the plume Of sunshine on the blind Instead of Delta gloom!
-Richard Humphries.
Papua, 1934.
Rev. H. Mayo-Harris, formerly Arch deacon of the Anglican Church in Fiji, now holds the rank of Lieut.-Commander and is in command of a Royal Austra lian Navy ship.
Pilot-Officer Pat Richardson, son of Mr. W. Richardson, who managed the Penang Sugar Mill in Fiji before it was taken over by the GSR Co., has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery during the RAP attack on the Nazi cruiser “Scharnhorst”, when she escaped from Brest recently. Flying a Wellington bomber, Richardson dived to within 400 feet of the German warship’s anti-aircraft barrage and, though wounded, dropped a stick of heavy bombs across her bows. Prior to the outbreak of war, Richardson was a mem ber of the CSR Company’s staff.