WH Auden - We're Late

WH Auden - We're Late

Clocks cannot tell our time of day br For what event to pray br Because we have no time, because br We have no time until br We know what time we fill, br Why time is other than time was. br Nor can our question satisfy br The answer in the statue's eye: br Only the living ask whose brow br May wear the Roman laurel now; br The dead say only how. br br What happens to the living when we die? br Death is not understood by Death; nor You, nor I.


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Uploaded: 2014-11-07

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