Lawrence Hall
Dispatches for the Colonial Office
Dag Hammarskjold Negotiates with Himself and with God
Cf. Auden’s introduction to Vagmarken
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny
but what we put into it is ours.
Vagmarken (Markings), p. 55 in the 1965 Knopf edition
When you were a little child
If you attend a school named for Dag Hammarskjold
How long did it take you to learn to spell his name?
And you are now an adult
And blessed with Hammarskjold’s Vagmarken
How long did it take you to joy in his transcendent good?
