22 MARCH 1963, Page 26

Scholar's Song

Assurance, purpose and the futile turns of verse deride us with our lively powers.

Who is a poet that can read the loose analogies of passion? Out of use the definitions coercing desires.

Formless, unpurposing, the light adjourns like-seeming shapes to nothing we may hold, as in a figure or a pausing trance the feel of reason leads us and we run subtle, reckoning comparison, Here in fantasmal aspect relevance deals harshness round us, something to unfold.

Eqivalences darken. We are bold. CAROL JOHNSON