23 NOVEMBER 1934, Page 40

Poem .

WHAT the eye delights in no longer dictates

My-greed to enjoy ; boys, grass, the fineed-off deer–.

It leaves those figures that distantly dance - On the horizon's rim : they sign their-peace, in games.

What is put away, stays removed : music which taps The.stift drums of the ear I do not sleep with .

Though whispering through my blood. Why should faces I Lights under evening trees, bewilder the breath . That is a noteless, perpetual engine %die Mind -reconsider Projects ?

There was a wood Habitation of foxes and fleshy burrows Where I learnt to uncast my childhood, and not alone, I learnt, not alone. There were four hands, four eyes, A third mouth of the dark to kiss, two people And a third not either ; and both detible, yet different. I entered with my self. I left with a woman.

Goodbye now, goodbye : to the early and sad hills Dazed with their houses, like a faint migraine.

Orchards bear memory in cloudy branches.

The entire world roared in a child's brain.

It suffers accidents. Now, I am yours.

My questions only had their answer When they were'fully put " There are two questioners, two answerers, They must meet in a wood." The question, the answer Were never yours or mine, but always, ours. . .

Sri