Classic Poem

Melchers has turned from Bible lore at last,
And seeks, with saner work, to blot the past.
His sight is normal when, rejecting guile,
He weds to truth of substance truth of style.
His kind-eyed Holland maids of canny face
Are touched of colour and convincing grace;
And sometimes with that tempered technique sing
That Henry James would call " the real right thing."