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The Monday Morning Memo

I

Fires in the dark you build; tall quivering flames 
In the huge midnight forest of the unknown. 
Your soul is full of cities with dead names, 
And blind-faced, earth-bound gods of bronze and stone 
Whose priests and kings and lust-begotten lords
Watch the procession of their thundering hosts, 
Or guard relentless fanes with flickering swords 
And wizardry of ghosts. 

II

In a strange house I woke; heard overhead 
Hastily-thudding feet and a muffled scream… 
(Is death like that?) … I quaked uncomforted, 
Striving to frame to-morrow in a dream 
Of woods and sliding pools and cloudless day. 
(You know how bees come into a twilight room 
From dazzling afternoon, then sail away 
Out of the curtained gloom.) 

III

You understand my thoughts; though, when you think, 
You’re out beyond the boundaries of my brain. 
I’m but a bird at dawn that cries ‘chink, chink’— 
A garden-bird that warbles in the rain. 
And you’re the flying-man, the speck that steers 
A careful course far down the verge of day, 
Half-way across the world. Above the years 
You soar … Is death so bad? … I wish you’d say. 

– Siegfried Sassoon

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