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Stephen Spender


Stephen Spender with WH Auden and Christopher Isherwood in 1931. 


The Pylons

The secret of these hills was stone, and cottages 
Of that stone made, 
And crumbling roads 
That turned on sudden hidden villages 

Now over these small hills, they have built the concrete 
That trails black wire 
Pylons, those pillars 
Bare like nude giant girls that have no secret. 

The valley with its gilt and evening look 
And the green chestnut 
Of customary root, 
Are mocked dry like the parched bed of a brook. 

But far above and far as sight endures 
Like whips of anger 
With lightning's danger 
There runs the quick perspective of the future. 

This dwarfs our emerald country by its trek 
So tall with prophecy 
Dreaming of cities 
Where often clouds shall lean their swan-white neck. 

 Thursday, April 22, 2010

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