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Talking in bed ought to be easiest,
Lying together there goes back so far,
An emblem of two people being honest.
The Whitsun Weddings (1964)
Don’t read too much now: the dude
Who lets the girl down before
The hero arrives, the chap
Who’s yellow and keeps the store,
Seem far too familiar. Get stewed:
Books are a load of crap.
The Whitsun Weddings (1964)
Home is so sad. It stays as it was left,
Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
As if to win them back.
The Whitsun Weddings (1964)
Life is first boredom, then fear.
Whether or not we use it, it goes,
And leaves what something hidden from us chose,
And age, and then the only end of age.
The Whitsun Weddings (1964)
I thought of London spread out in the sun,
Its postal districts packed like squares of wheat.
The Whitsun Weddings (1964)
What are days for?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be happy in:
Where can we live but days?
The Whitsun Weddings (1964)
Give me your arm, old toad;
Help me down Cemetery Road.
The Whitsun Weddings (1964)
Time has transfigured them into
Untruth. The stone fidelity
They hardly meant has come to be
Their final blazon, and to prove
Our almost-instinct almost true:
What will survive of us is love.
The Whitsun Weddings (1964)
Never such innocence,
Never before or since,
As changed itself to past
Without a word — the men
Leaving the gardens tidy,
The thousands of marriages,
Lasting a little while longer:
Never such innocence again.
The Whitsun Weddings (1964)