All this slowness, all this hardness,
The nearness that is waiting in my bed,
The gradual self-effacement of the dead.


"The First Month of His Absence", line 33; p. 35. - Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets (1945)

Alun Lewis Quotes

All this slowness, all this hardness, The nearness that is waiting in my bed, The gradual self-effacement of the dead.

All this slowness, all this hardness, The nearness that is waiting in my bed, The gradual self-effacement of the dead.

All this slowness, all this hardness, The nearness that is waiting in my bed, The gradual self-effacement of the dead.

All this slowness, all this hardness, The nearness that is waiting in my bed, The gradual self-effacement of the dead.