Sunday 14 October 2007

From "Poems on sore subjects"

I saw your tree-house in a darker garden

Than Headington affords: I see

A boat on real sands unreally,

I played with pigeon post a while,

And learnt to laugh with braggart ease.

Long calm awaited I continent's touch -

That is, the cheeks. But now it is the hair

That holds my thought. I want to know

As clearly as your eyes are grey, just so,

That your hair's brown. Farther yet, if you strive

To make it gold. If so, desist.

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