Never to reach the oblivious dark

And not to know

Any man's troubles nor your own

Negatives impress negation

Empty of light and find the darkness lit

Never is nightmare

Never flows out from the wound of sleep

Staining the broken brain

With knowledge that no use and nothing worth

Still's vain to argue after death

No use to run your head against the wall

To find a sweet blankness in the blood and shell

This pus runs deep

There's poison in your red wine  drinker

Which spreads down to the dregs

Leaving a corrupted vein of colour

Sawdust beneath the skirts

On every hand the evil's positive

For dead or live

Froth or a moment's movement

All hold the sum  nothing to nothing

Even the words are nothing

While the sun's turned to salt

Can be but vanity  such an old cry

Nothing never  nothing older

Though we're consumed by lovers and doubts

I love and doubt  it's vain, it's vain

Loving and doubting like one who is to die

Planning what's good  though it's but winter

When spring is come

The jonquil and the trumpet

And Death Shall Have No Dominion

And death shall have no dominion
Dead mean naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon
When their bones are picked clean and the clen bones gone
They shall have stars at elbow and foot
Though they go mad they shall be sane
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again
Though lovers be lost love shall not
And death shall have no dominion

And death shall have no dominion
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily
Twisting on racks when sinews give way
Strapped to a wheel   yet they shall not break
Faith in their hands shall snap in two
And the unicorn evils run them through
Split all ends up they shan't crack
And death shall have no dominion

And death shall have no dominion
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain
Though they be mad and dead as nails
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down
And death shall have no dominion