Was it for this the clay grew tall?
O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth's sleep at all?


The Poems of Wilfred Owen (1931)


Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?