Their faces shone under some radiance

Dylan Thomas

1914 to 1953

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Hung pointed in the wind,
Their faces shone under some radiance
The island of such penny love
Their faces shone; the midnight rain
She, in her cheap frock, saying some cheap thing,
Into a costly country, the graves
(And skeletons had sap). One minute
That neighboured them to wells of warmth,
The suicides parade again, now ripe for dying.
Of mingled moonlight and lamplight
Not knowing radiance came and passed.
That turned the empty kisses into meaning,
Before the moon shifted and the sap ran out,
And he replying,