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At ten I read Mayakovsky had died	A
learned my first word of Russian lyublyu	B
watched my English teacher poke his earwax	C
with a well chewed HB and get the class	D
to join his easy mocking of my essay	E
where I'd used verdant herbage for green grass	D
So he was right So I hated him	F
And he was not really right the ass	D
A writer knows what he needs	G
as came to pass	D
	-
At twenty I got marching orders kitbag	H
farewell to love not arms though our sole arms	I
were stretchers a freezing Glentress winter	J
where I was coaxing sticks at six to get	K
a stove hot for the cooks found myself picked	L
quartermaster's clerk 'this one seems a bit	M
less gormless than the bloody others' did	N
gas drill in the stinging tent met	K
Tam McSherry who farted at will	O
a musical set	K
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At thirty I thought life had passed me by	P
translated Beowulf for want of love	Q
And one night stands in city centre lanes	R
they were dark in those days were wild but bleak	H
Sydney Graham in London said 'you know	S
I always thought so' kissed me on the cheek	H
And I translated Rilke's Loneliness	T
is like a rain and week after week after week	H
strained to unbind myself	U
sweated to speak	H
	-
At forty I woke up saw it was day	E
found there was love heard a new beat heard Beats	V
sent airmail solidarity to Sa	W
Paulo's poetic concrete revolution	X
knew Glasgow what knew Glasgow new somehow	Y
new with me with John with cranes diffusion	X
of another concrete revolution not bad	Z
not good but new And new was no illusion	X
a spring of words a sloughing	H
an ablution	X
	-
At fifty I began to have bad dreams	A2
of Palestine and saw bad things to come	B2
began to write my long unwritten war	C2
I was a hundred handed Sindbad then	X
rolled and unrolled carpets of blood and love	Q
raised tents of pain made the dust into men	X
and laid the dust with men I supervised	D2
a thesis on Doughty that great Englishman	X
who brought all Arabia back	H
in his hard pen	X
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At sixty I was standing by a grave	E2
The winds of Lanarkshire were loud and high	P
I knew what I had lost what I had had	Z
The East had schooled me about fate but still	O
it was the hardest time oh more it was	F2
the worst of times in self reproach the will	O
that failed to act the mass of good not done	X
Forgiveness must be like the springs that fill	O
deserted furrows till they wait	G2
until until	O
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At seventy I thought I had come through	H2
like parting a bead curtain in Port Said	I2
to something that was shadowy before	C2
figures and voices of late times that might	J2
be surprising yet The beads clash faintly	K2
behind me as I go forward No candle light	J2
please keep that for Europe Switch the whole thing	H
right on When I go in I want it bright	J2
I want to catch whatever is there	L2
in full sight	J2

Edwin Morgan

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