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Frogmarched by old need They chaffer for a partner....

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For in the word death There is nothing to grasp; nothing to catch or claim;...

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At length to hospital This man was limited,...

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Death will be such another thing, All we have done not mattering.

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Whether they forget What they wanted first or not They tarnish at quiet anchor.

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Now you become my boredom and my failure, Another way of suffering, a risk, A heavier-than-air hypostasis.

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No one can tear your thread out of himself. No one can tie you down or set you free.

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For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devil's tunes Shivering home to pray; I take you now and for always, For always is always now.

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They would not guess how early in Their supine stationary voyage The air would change to soundless damage....

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The bells discuss the hour's gradations, Dusty shelves hold prayers and proofs:...

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When I see a couple of kids And guess he's fucking her and she's...

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

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What Reply can the vast flowering strike from us, Unless it be the one You make today in London: to be married?

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Work has to be done. Postmen like doctors go from house to house.

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Remember then our only shape is death When mask and face are nailed apart at last....

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So. Let me accept the role, and call Myself the circumstances' tennis-ball:...

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Will you greet your doom As final; set him loaves and wine; knowing...

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Walk with the dead For fear of death.

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Where has it gone, the lifetime? Search me. What's left is drear....

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Unhindered in the dingy wards Lives flicker out, one here, one there....

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