If hands could free you, heart, <br />Where would you fly? <br />Far, beyond every part <br />Of earth this running sky <br />Makes desolate? Would you cross <br />City and hill and sea, <br />If hands could set you free? <br /> <br />I would not lift the latch; <br />For I could run <br />Through fields, pit-valleys, catch <br />All beauty under the sun-- <br />Still end in loss: <br />I should find no bent arm, no bed <br />To rest my head.<br /><br />Philip Larkin<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-hands-could-free-you-heart/
