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Francis Scarfe - The Window

2014-11-10 3 Dailymotion

In after years, when you look back upon <br />This time, and upon me, who am no more <br />Close to your heart nor a shadow in your sun, <br />Perhaps you will stand still and lean on the door <br />Or lay down something, feeling quite undone. <br /> <br />Some passing stranger, or a turn of phrase, <br />Or any echo or shade, will be enough, <br />Anything that is worn and almost effaced, <br />Anything half finished, will be proof <br />I was no natural but an acquired taste. <br /> <br />So you will stand there, looking back, inspired <br />As though the curtains parted on some view <br />Not quite to be believed in, nor desired, <br />And which did not exist except for you, <br />Like some clay thing the potter never fired. <br /> <br />No, it would not be wise to throw the window wide. <br />Close it quickly, before it hurts, and go <br />About your usual tasks, and let time hide <br />Beneath mountains of hours, what you know <br />Cannot be lived again, yet has not died.<br /><br />Francis Scarfe<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-window-33/

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