The Ancestors
When the night's coming and the last light fallsA weak child among lost shadows on the floor,
It is your listening: pulse heeds the
Of fore and after, wind shivers the door.
What masterful delay commands the
Breaking its access to the living heart?
Consider this, the secret indecision,
Not rudeness of time but the systaltic
Of ancient failure begging its new start:
The flickered pause between the day and night(When the heart knows its informality)The bones hear but the eyes will never see-Punctilious abyss, the yawn of
Come once a day to suffocate the sight.
There is no man on earth who can be
Of this, the eldest in the latest crime.
Allen Tate
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For when they meet, the tensile Like fine steel strains under the Of messages that both hearts bear-Pure passion once, now purest hate; Till the taut air like a cold
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Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild And I must think a little of the past: