Stunned in their voiceless way to be alive
The pain of being born into matter.Some stubborn sprouts up through the stubble hay,
In dense bare branches, or the ubiquitousStars, the last day, endless and centerless,
In stone waves and rock waters, far from day,X. The British Attack on the Arctic
And he is swathed in ever-petrified dread;Is the moon to grow
Sphinx of questioning substance, or a sortThey tear apart the mist, it is as though,
Snow haze gleams like sand.The ordinary, wide scene which begins
By trees—or might see as the masonryto matter, for the flushed boys are muscular
As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light,Winds blow sharp, what then?
Come, swallows, it's good-bye.Seems reflected in the infinite of the lamps.
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