When first we faced, and touching
How well we knew the early moves,
Behind the moonlight and the frost
The excitement and the gratitude,
There stood how much our meeting o

Side by side, their faces blurred,
The earl and countess lie in stone
Their proper habits vaguely shown
As jointed armour, stiffened pleat
And that faint hint of the absurd—

When I see a couple of kids
And guess he’s fucking her and she
Taking pills or wearing a diaphrag
I know this is paradise
Everyone old has dreamed of all th

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

I work all day, and get half-drunk
Waking at four to soundless dark,
In time the curtain-edges will gro
Till then I see what’s really alw
Unresting death, a whole day neare

What do they think has happened, t
To make them like this? Do they s
It’s more grown-up when your mouth
And you keep on pissing yourself,
Who called this morning? Or that,

Next year we are to bring all the
For lack of money, and it is all r
Places they guarded, or kept order
We want the money for ourselves at
Instead of working. And this is a

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

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,

Coming up England by a different
For once, early in the cold new ye
We stopped, and, watching men with
Sprint down the platform to famili
‘Why, Coventry!’ I exclaimed. ‘I