Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE WIND BLEW WORDS, by THOMAS HARDY


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First Line: The wind blew words along the skies
Last Line: To kill, break, or suppress.


THE wind blew words along the skies,
And these it blew to me
Through the wide dusk: 'Lift up your eyes,
Behold this troubled tree,
Complaining as it sways and plies;
It is a limb of thee.

'Yea, too, the creatures sheltering round -
Dumb figures, wild and tame,
Yea, too, thy fellows who abound -
Either of speech the same
Or far and strange - black, dwarfed, and browned,
They are stuff of thy own frame.'

I moved on in a surging awe
Of inarticulateness
At the pathetic Me I saw
In all his huge distress,
Making self-slaughter of the law
To kill, break, or suppress.





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