The record-keepers of record-breakers,The lackers and onlookers of greatness,Eunuch students of love and peeping Toms. Awake! and Other Poems (1941)
The dead diplomat, inseparableOn his finger-end the skeleton-keysOf compromise and ambiguity.There too floated the drowned scholar, his handHolding his pat reference and apt tag,Index and document, his subscriptionTo Authority. Awake! and Other Poems (1941)