Versos English T. E. Hulme (W.R.)

English poem

(W.R.)

by (1883–1917)

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You, who are touched not by our mortal ways Nor girded with the stricture of our bands, Have but to loose the magic from your hands And all men's hearts that glimmer for a day, And all our loves that are so swift to flame Rise in that space of sound and melt away.