O make me a mask and a wall to shut from your spies
Of the sharp, enamelled eyes and the spectacled claws
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Especially when the October wind
With frosty fingers punishes my hair,
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Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
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And death shall have no dominion.
Dead mean naked they shall be one
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Because the pleasure-bird whistles after the hot wires,
Shall the blind horse sing sweeter?
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I
I, in my intricate image, stride on two levels,
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If I were tickled by the rub of love,
A rooking girl who stole me for her side,
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In my craft or sullen art
Exercised in the still night
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I
Our eunuch dreams, all seedless in the light,
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In the mustardseed sun,
By full tilt river and switchback sea
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The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
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This day winding down now
At God speeded summer's end
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It was my thirtieth year to heaven
Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood
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Light breaks where no sun shines;
Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart
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I see the boys of summer in their ruin
Lay the gold tithings barren,
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My tears are like the quiet drift
Of petals from some magic rose;
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All all and all the dry worlds lever,
Stage of the ice, the solid ocean,
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Sometimes the sky's too bright,
Or has too many clouds or birds,
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Too proud to die; broken and blind he died
The darkest way, and did not turn away,
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All that I owe the fellows of the grave
And all the dead bequeathed from pale estates
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Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles
In children's circuses could stay their troubles?
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Once it was the colour of saying
Soaked my table the uglier side of a hill
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On no work of words now for three lean months in the
bloody
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O
Out of a bed of love
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Hold hard, these ancient minutes in the cuckoo's month,
Under the lank, fourth folly on Glamorgan's hill,
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After the funeral, mule praises, brays,
Windshake of sailshaped ears, muffle-toed tap
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Altarwise by owl-light in the half-way house
The gentleman lay graveward with his furies;
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Where once the waters of your face
Spun to my screws, your dry ghost blows,
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When once the twilight locks no longer
Locked in the long worm of my finger
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