Continuing to live—that is, repeat
A habit formed to get necessaries—
Is nearly always losing, or going
It varies.
This loss of interest, hair, and e

The mower stalled, twice; kneeling
A hedgehog jammed up against the b
Killed. It had been in the long g
I had seen it before, and even fed
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive

Waiting for breakfast, while she b
I looked down at the empty hotel y
Once meant for coaches. Cobblesto
But sent no light back to the load
Sunk as it was with mist down to t

Green-shadowed people sit, or walk
Their children finger the awakened
Calmly a cloud stands, calmly a bi
And, flashing like a dangled-looki
Sun lights the balls that bounce,

The cloakroom pegs are empty now,
And locked the classroom door,
The hollow desks are lined with du
And slow across the floor
A sunbeam creeps between the chair

After comparing lives with you for
I see how I’ve been losing: all t
I’ve met a different gauge of girl
Grant that, and all the rest makes
My mortification at your pushovers

When getting my nose in a book
Cured most things short of school,
It was worth ruining my eyes
To know I could still keep cool,
And deal out the old right hook

Tired of a landscape known too wel
The deliberate shallow hills, the
Flying past rocks; tired of rememb
The village children and their nau
He abandoned his small holding and

If I were called in
To construct a religion
I should make use of water.
Going to church
Would entail a fording

Since we agreed to let the road be
Fall to disuse,
And bricked our gates up, planted
And turned all time’s eroding agen
Silence, and space, and strangers