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"And Oh--That The Man I Am Might Cease To Be--"

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Title:     "And Oh--That The Man I Am Might Cease To Be--"
Author: D. H. Lawrence [More Titles by Lawrence]

No, now I wish the sunshine would stop,
and the white shining houses, and the gay red flowers on the balconies
and the bluish mountains beyond, would be crushed out
between two valves of darkness;
the darkness falling, the darkness rising, with muffled sound
obliterating everything.

I wish that whatever props up the walls of light
would fall, and darkness would come hurling heavily down,
and it would be thick black dark for ever.
Not sleep, which is grey with dreams,
nor death, which quivers with birth,
but heavy, sealing darkness, silence, all immovable.

What is sleep?
It goes over me, like a shadow over a hill,
but it does not alter me, nor help me.
And death would ache still, I am sure;
it would be lambent, uneasy.
I wish it would be completely dark everywhere,
inside me, and out, heavily dark utterly.

WOLFRATSHAUSEN


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D. H. Lawrence's poem: "and Oh--That The Man I Am Might Cease To Be--"

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