[DAVID
HAMISH
JENKINS, a native of Merthyr Tydfil,
originally studied painting, and produced several excellent
pictures,
At the age of twenty—one he took up the study of
the classics, and occupied the position of classical master
at several public schools,
Whilst in London he met Aleister
Crowley, whose poetical works had a great charm for him
jenkins was a prolific writer, but unfortunately, little of his
work was published before his death at the early age of
thirty-three,
He died in March 1911, mourned by a large
circle of friends,
Ε. W.]
ΤΟ PERSIS
Ι
CHILD—forgive me if I call thee Child—
The weight of my mortality in years,
I reckon not, but tribulations wild,
With stormy battle, stress of life and fears.
I see thee once again athwart the mist
Of Time, and past the wane of many moons
Not changed, with still a change—the same, I wist,
Yet not—as purest daylight’s change from noon.
ΙΙ
I then beheld thee with thy tresses rolled
In darkling curls and masses long adown
:
A child thou wert, in maiden’s youthful mould,
\Vith childhood‘s pensive magic round thee thrown.
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