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W H Auden - The WandererW H Auden - The Wanderer
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    Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.     Upon what man it fall     In spring, day-wishing flowers appearing,     Avalanche sliding, white snow from rock-face,     That he should leave his house,     No cloud-soft hand can hold him, restraint by women;      But ever that man goes     Through place-keepers, through forest trees,     A stranger to strangers over undried sea,     Houses for fishes, suffocating water,     Or lonely on fell as chat,     By pot-holed becks     A bird stone-haunting, an unquiet bird.     There head falls forward, fatigued at evening,     And dreams of home,     Waving from window, spread of welcome,     Kissing of wife under single sheet;     But waking sees     Bird-flocks nameless to him, through doorway           voices     Of new men making another love.     Save him from hostile capture,     From sudden tiger`s leap at corner;     Protect his house,     His anxious house where days are counted     From thunderbolt protect,     From gradual ruin spreading like a stain;     Converting number from vague to certain,     Bring joy, bring day of his returning,     Lucky with day approaching, with leaning dawn.
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