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'He took a long, long farewell of the Princess, and when he got out of the Giant's door, there stood the Wolf waiting for him': Illustration by Kay Nielsen in East of the Sun and West of the Moon, 1914, 198 x 150 mm (Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library New Zealand)
The sad strange someone not I who lay
awake in the ruined
dark all night listening
across the long abyss of loss and rue
and truth and suffering and wonder
to the strained painful
coughing of the one being loved
above all others
and whispering to
the wolf waiting outside the door
Later
Marge Bodidilo and Tibby Gill (assistants to International Stampede artist Steve Clemento), in sharp-shooting act at the garden party for the farewell to Governor Game (held to raise funds for the District and Bush Nursing Association): photo by Sam Hood (1872-1953), 11 January 1935 (State Library of New South Wales)