November 4, 2012

As I Walked Down One Evening - W. H. Auden

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But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime:
'O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.

'In the burrows of the Nightmare
Where Justice naked is,
Time watches from the shadow
And coughs when you would kiss.

'In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away,
And Time will have his fancy
To-morrow or to-day.

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