Poem A Day

That Girl's Clear Eyes

by Edward Thomas

THAT girl's clear eyes utterly concealed all

Except that there was something to reveal.

And what did mine say in the interval?

No more: no less. They are but as a seal

Not to be broken till after I am dead;

And then vainly. Every one of us

This morning at our tasks left nothing said,

In spite of many words. We were sealed thus,

Like tombs. Nor until now could I admit

That all I cared for was the pleasure and pain

I tasted in the stony square sunlit,

Or the dark cloisters, or shade of airy plane,

While music blazed and children, line after line,

Marched past, hiding the "SEVENTEEN THIRTY-

NINE."

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