Robert Graves
The Cool Web
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Children are dumb to say how hot the day is, [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]How hot the scent is of the summer rose, [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]How dreadful the black wastes of evening sky, [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]How dreadful the tall soliers drulling by, [/FONT]
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But we have speech, to chill the angry day, [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]And speech, to dull the roses's cruel scent, [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]We spell away the overhanging night, [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]We spell away the soldiers and the fright. [/FONT]
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There's a cool web of language winds us in, [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]We grow sea-green at last and coldly die [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In brininess and volubility. [/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]But if we let our tongues lose self-possession, [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Throwing off language and its watery clasp [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Before our death, instead of when death comes, [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Facing the wide glare of the children's day, [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Facing the rose, the dark sky and the drums, [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]We shall go mad, no doubt, and die that way[/FONT]
Probly.