See, they return; ah, see the tentative
Movements, and the slow feet,
The trouble in the pace and the uncertain
Wavering!
See, they return, one, and by one,
With fear, as half-awakened;
As if the snow should hesitate
And murmur in the wind,
and half turn back;
These were the “Wing’d-with-Awe,”
Inviolable.
Gods of the wingèd shoe!
With them the silver hounds,
sniffing the trace of air!
Haie! Haie!
These were the swift to harry;
These the keen-scented;
These were the souls of blood.
Slow on the leash,
pallid the leash-men!
These were the souls of blood.
Golden boys and golden girls must, like the chimney sweep, turn to dust. Approximate Shakespeare, but it is an evocation of wounded vets returning to the scenes of their youthful triumphs after being brutalized by war. It could also be all of us in the future, arizing from our graves at someOne’s bequest.
…. just an Idle Thought.
Dan
ifond the reeturn poem because it taalks about main theme in the world that the world begins withw vigiorus souls and vital but at the last step of the life the world turned to decay.
this poem represent the imagist movement an i think it has acoonection with wiliiam butttler yeats in his poem “sailing to byzantium “and with thomas hardy in his poem in the fall of “the breaking nations”
zakaryia moustafa salameh al mhasees
jordan
yarmouck university
17/5/2007
You have written of the end.
this poem is pure crap!