Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE CLOUDS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER


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First Line: I watch the clouds that float along the sky
Last Line: I watch the clouds that float along the sky.
Subject(s): Clouds; London


I WATCH the clouds that float along the sky.
The city is stiff and grey,
In desperate struggle death-locked and frozen,
And between the angular, motionless, unbent facades
Creak and groan the carts, painfully striving
To crawl and push along forward -- for ever in vain.
Yet above them move the clouds, free and unfrozen.
I watch the clouds that drift along the sky.
Through the fracas of life my body's borne and buffeted,
Ever resisting impulse, held back yet pushed forward;
But my soul watches alone, indifferent and un-changing,
By that deep thought in which life and death are one:
Which is to me as a lonely torch in the darkness,
Consuming, creating its own illumination,
Lawless, of all its laws its own fulfilment,
Purposeless, of all purposes the creator,
Imperishably dead.
I watch the clouds that float along the sky.





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