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The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower, by Dylan Thomas

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Poems, theirs and mine

The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower, by Dylan Thomas

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower

Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees 

Is my destroyer.

And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose 

My youth is bent by the same wintry fever. 

 

The force that drives the water through the rocks 

Drives my red blood; that dries the mouthing streams 

Turns mine to wax. 

And I am dumb to mouth unto my veins 

How at the mountain spring the same mouth sucks. 

 

The hand that whirls the water in the pool 

Stirs the quicksand; that ropes the blowing wind 

Hauls my shroud sail. 

And I am dumb to tell the hanging man 

How of my clay is made the hangman's lime. 

 

The lips of time leech to the fountainhead; 

Love drips and gathers, but the fallen blood 

Shall calm her sores. 

And I am dumb to tell a weather's wind 

How time has ticked a heaven round the stars. 

 

And I am dumb to tell the lover's tomb 

How at my sheet goes the same crooked worm.


IN FRENCH


 
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