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The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
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)
I search myself for illusions like a monkey looking for fleas.
But superstition, like belief, must die,
And what remains when disbelief has gone?
The Less Deceived (1955)
A serious house on serious earth it is,
In whose blent air all our compulsions meet,
Are recognised, and robed as destinies.
The Less Deceived (1955)
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