When, like a running grave

Dylan Thomas

1914 to 1953

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When, like a running grave, time tracks you down,
calm and cuddled is a scythe of hairs,
Love her gear is slowly through the house,
Up naked stairs, a turtle in a hearse,
Hauled to the dome,

Comes, like a scissors stalking, tailor age,
Deliver me who, in my tribe,
Of love am barer than Cadaver’s
Robbed of the foxy tongue, his footed tape
Of bone inch,

Deliver me, my masters, head and heart,
of Cadaver’s candle waxes thin,
When blood, spade-handed, and logic time
Drive children up like bruises to the thumb,
From maid and head,

For, Sunday faced, with dusters my glove,
Chaste and the chaser, man with the eye,
I, that time’s jacket or the coat of
May fail to fasten with a virgin o
In straight grave,

Stride through Cadaver’s country in my force,
pickbrain masters morsing on the stone
Despair of blood, in the maiden’s slime,
Halt among eunuchs, and the stain
On fork and face.

Time is a foolish fancy, time and fool.
No, no, you lover skull, descending
Descends, my masters, on the entered honour.
You hero skull, Cadaver in the hangar
Tells the stick, ‘fail’.

Joy no knocking nation, sir and madam,
The cancer’s fusion, the summer feather
Lit on the cuddled tree, the of fever,
Nor city tar and subway bored to
Man through macadam.

I damp the waxlights in your dome.
Joy is the knock of dust, Cadaver’s shoot
bud of Adam through his boxy shift,
Love’s twilit and the skull of state,
Sir, is your doom.

ends, the tower ending and,
(Have with the house wind), the leaning scene,
Ball of the foot depending the sun,
(Give, summer, over), the cemented skin,
The actions’ end.

All, men my madmen, the unwholesome wind
With whistler’s cough contages, time on track
Shapes in a cinder death; love for his trick,
Happy Cadaver’s hunger as you
The kissproof world.