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Terence JH Charley (Hong Kong Singapore Artillery) 

Officer POW in Kanchanaburi  he might have ended his war  at  Nakon Nayok April to July 1945 held about 2,000 British, Australian and a few American POWs. Towards the end batches of POWs were moved there from the Kanchanaburi  camp /..  The end came on 16/17 August 1945 .

Its worth searching on the net  for  Macalester College Chapter 9. “The Battle for Concerts”: Kanburi  by Sears Eldredge  = A very interesting article which stresses the prohibition on paper and diaries written accounts by the vindictive policies of the I. J. A. commandant at Kanburi, the POWs’ integrity and fortitude would be tested indeed .. 






This most peculiar manuscript poem in Terence's hand and later mounted and annotated by him take inspiration in its opening lines from Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins  then diverges  .If you are a literary type comment on the content and an interpretation most welcome .. drop me  line ..  



BUNG BEAUTY 
Glory be to God for dimpled things –
For skin of couple-colour and the goitred cow
Like goo goo glance from the tippling peepers all a - swim    
loin lean navel-nonsense jove ah !  brings 
Schemes  long plotted  - success  - fleury lusty on loo !
His smooth skin a-slide with muscle and slim 

Orgasmic, dark ,aboriginal, base  ,strange 
Gg#lliw#g -gigolo ,fecund ,folds me now 
In sun salt-sweat ,when a bloody prim  
old sodameter sends him out of range -
sod him !  

note to avoid  ebay issues the word g#lliw#g  has been redacted in the photos  the original manuscript is undamaged .  goo goo  ( Goo-goo eyes and amorous glance are semantically related In some cases you can use "Goo-goo eyes" instead a noun phrase "Amorous glance".)




Pied Beauty   1877

"Pied Beauty" is a curtal sonnet by the English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889). It was written in 1877, but not published until 1918, when it was included as part of the collection Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins.



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BY GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
Glory be to God for dappled things –
   For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
      For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
   Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;
      And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
   Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
      With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
                                Praise him.

"Pied Beauty" is a hymn of praise to the variety of God's creation, which is contrasted with the unity and non-changing nature of God. This variety is embodied in the "dappled things" of nature, as detailed in the sestet of the curtal sonnet.