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Were Late

Clocks cannot tell our time of

For what event to

Because we have no time,

We have no time

We know what time we fill,

Why time is other than time was.

Nor can our question

The answer in the statue's eye:

Only the living ask whose

May wear the Roman laurel now;

The dead say only how.

What happens to the living when we die?

Death is not understood by Death; nor You, nor I.

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W H Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an Anglo-American poet. Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical ac…

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