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‘That girl who laughed and had black eyes’ Lyrics by Stephen Spender

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That girl who laughed and had black eyes
Spoke here ten days ago. She smiles
Still in my though; the lip still promises
That body lives, and the quick eye beguiles.
Now that she's dead, I feel the living flame
Move across walls and twist across my sight:
Through tilting, smothering waters of Death's name,
Through the transparent grave, I see her bright.
She lives beneath our common objects, dust
And chairs, and her few poems about the room.
Although death play its tricks, and the earth's crust
Swallow her up in the enormous tomb,
I meet her every turn; the muffled part
The stilled applause, the pageant to appal,
Startle her shade to take birth in my heart;
I see her dancing through the solid wall!
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Stephen Spender

Stephen Spender

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