Edwin Muir Away Poems

  • 1.
    We were a tribe, a family, a people.
    Wallace and Bruce guard now a painted field,
    And all may read the folio of our fable,
    Peruse the sword, the sceptre and the shield.
    ...
  • 2.
    Our fathers all were poor,
    Poorer our fathers' fathers;
    Beyond, we dare not look.
    We, the sons, keep store
    ...
  • 3.
    All through that summer at ease we lay,
    And daily from the turret wall
    We watched the mowers in the hay
    And the enemy half a mile away
    ...
  • 4.
    O Merlin in your crystal cave
    Deep in the diamond of the day,
    Will there ever be a singer
    Whose music will smooth away
    ...
  • 5.
    So from the ground we felt that virtue branch
    Through all our veins till we were whole, our wrists
    As fresh and pure as water from a well,
    Our hands made new to handle holy things,
    ...
  • 6.
    rld to sleep,
    Late in the evening the strange horses came.
    By then we had made our covenant with silence,
    But in the first few days it was so still
    ...
  • 7.
    It was not meant for human eyes,
    That combat on the shabby patch
    Of clods and trampled turf that lies
    Somewhere beneath the sodden skies
    ...
  • 8.
    They do not live in the world,
    Are not in time and space.
    From birth to death hurled
    No word do they have, not one
    ...
Total 8 Away Poems by Edwin Muir

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