Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918.
113. The Mid-World
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Your heart must journey through:
Your pains will here be legion
And joy be death for you.
A turning tide shall flow
Through infinite tones of sorrow
To reach an equal woe.
To gain the goal you long—
But my heart, my heart is bleeding:
I cannot sing this song.