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“Song” by
Roy Campbell
🇿🇦
(
2 Oct 1901
–
23 Apr 1957
)
You ask what far-off singing
Has mingled with our rest.
It is my love that, winging
The deep wave of your breast,
With white sail homeward turning,
Sings at the golden oar
Of a white city burning
On the battle-tented shore.