William Ewart Gladstone Louw, was an Afrikaner poet and is in the main known to the literary world merely as W.E.G. Louw. He was the younger brother of the poet N. P. van Wyk Louw.
His poems
Pale Falcon White is the world of historical mourning and tragic the waltz of the sea at day's dawning dew on the dunes, no zephyr that wakes just a falcon that sings in the circles he makes... (Translated by J. W. Marchant). ==His influences==
His influences
The South African composer Cromwell Everson constructed a song cycle, "Vier Liefdesliedjies" ("Four little love songs"), that found inspiration in a poem that W.E.G. had entitled "Nooit Nog" ("Never again"). ==References==