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And then when then I die |
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I feel I shall say |
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I have not understood |
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I have not understood any of this |
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My eyes are still coaldark |
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I have not understood |
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Around and in my eyes the tiny flecks |
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Of swirling crippled confused lights |
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And to my heart I will whisper |
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Softly quietly |
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"There is no death there is no death" |
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(And goodbye to you all) |
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Under the gorgon grinned arches |
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Of London's great vaults |
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I have not understood |
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Under the sunpuckered roofs of Kathmandu |
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I have not understood |
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Along the soulstoned streets |
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Of Lower |
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And of Higher Germanie |
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I have not understood |
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Leipzig: blackeyed pain and loss: she |
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I have not understood |
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In Clare near I |
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The empty lakes are open in the distance |
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And too close is the faminereatchingroad |
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All these are ghosts |
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There I have not understood |
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(In the Heart of the Wood |
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Oh there have I understood) |
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I rested at the temple of Great Black Time - Her |
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And did not understand |
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Though animalbled fleshmarbled rivers ran in Her honour |
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His buckled body in blood |
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Returns to the prebirth poise |
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Spreadeagled like starfish - |
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There in His eyes: |
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Incomprehension mute pain disbelief what |
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Blood there meant sorrow trickles there |
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This I could not understand |
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I bend the pages of yet another book |
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And in its lines Great Black Lines |
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I have not understood |
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Please gramerey pray for me |
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And oh goodbye sweetestheart |
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The wind roars in the nearness |
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And there in my heart |
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And all the clouds are spiralling towards us |
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Descent indeed to the centre of it all |
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Skipping lightly and lying truly |
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This we shall understand |
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I hope... |
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Wet bent humped trees |
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The great ones - there |
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On the lapped shore |
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Dai Ichi |
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There also I do not know |
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This is all unknowable |
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And as the dust covers |
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My empty eyes |
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You shall read in these foolish gapes |
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Oh that I have not understood |
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(But if you look for the stag and the cross conjoined |
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There on my arm look there |
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There I have understood very well) |
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Now you are all fading |
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All fading |
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As my age creeps on |
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As This Age stumbles on |
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Fires in the earth |
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Fires in the sky |
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Fires in our hearts |
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Fires everywhere |
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The black eyes |
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Already blacken |
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And this I have not understood |
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Not peace |
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But a sword |
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This and He |
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Unfortunately |
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I have understood |
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Under the bowered greenwood tree |
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When first I lay |
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Bright starre with Thee |
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Under the velvet branches dear |
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When sun and moon both came so near |
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Under the starlit open dome |
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Under the starsharp pointed lights |
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Under the starloved greeny earth |
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When first I wanted to hold You |
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And all the world halfdead and halflive |
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Spat into my mouth |
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Bluesea bitterwater |
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And I am almost dead |
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And I have not understood |
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Under the rain and teeth of gods |
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Under the pain and sleeping liddy eyes |
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Under the brokkd wetful heaven |
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If you are there |
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If you are there |
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If you are there |
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Then I am singing with my eyes |
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If you are there |
