No man believes
Dylan Thomas
1914 to 1953
Track 1
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No breasted girl, no man who, young
When any light goes out, and life is death.
Who in the bones finds not new faith,
No man believes who cries not, God is not,
No man believes who does not wonder why.
Believes who does not lance his faith,
Cries not in terror when a bird is drawn
No man believes who, when a star falls shot,
And green, sneers not at the old sky.
No man, no man, no man.
No man who does not break and make,
And this is true, no man can live
Who feels not coldness in the heat,
Lends not flesh to ribs and neck,
Into the quicksand feathers down,
Who does not bury God in a deep grave
Who does not break and make his final faith.
Believe and be saved. No man believes
No man upon this cyst of earth
In the breasted summer longs not for spring,
Who does not make a wound in faith
And then raise up the skeleton again,
Who curses not what makes and saves,
Cries not aloud blind as a bat,
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