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If it form the one landscape that we the inconstant ones	A
Are consistently homesick for this is chiefly	B
Because it dissolves in water Mark these rounded slopes	C
With their surface fragrance of thyme and beneath	D
A secret system of caves and conduits hear the springs	E
That spurt out everywhere with a chuckle	F
Each filling a private pool for its fish and carving	G
Its own little ravine whose cliffs entertain	H
The butterfly and the lizard examine this region	I
Of short distances and definite places	J
What could be more like Mother or a fitter background	K
For her son the flirtatious male who lounges	L
Against a rock in the sunlight never doubting	G
That for all his faults he is loved whose works are but	M
Extensions of his power to charm From weathered outcrop	N
To hill top temple from appearing waters to	O
Conspicuous fountains from a wild to a formal vineyard	P
Are ingenious but short steps that a child's wish	Q
To receive more attention than his brothers whether	R
By pleasing or teasing can easily take	S
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Watch then the band of rivals as they climb up and down	T
Their steep stone gennels in twos and threes at times	U
Arm in arm but never thank God in step or engaged	V
On the shady side of a square at midday in	W
Voluble discourse knowing each other too well to think	X
There are any important secrets unable	F
To conceive a god whose temper tantrums are moral	F
And not to be pacified by a clever line	Y
Or a good lay for accustomed to a stone that responds	Z
They have never had to veil their faces in awe	A2
Of a crater whose blazing fury could not be fixed	B2
Adjusted to the local needs of valleys	C2
Where everything can be touched or reached by walking	G
Their eyes have never looked into infinite space	D2
Through the lattice work of a nomad's comb born lucky	B
Their legs have never encountered the fungi	E2
And insects of the jungle the monstrous forms and lives	F2
With which we have nothing we like to hope in common	I
So when one of them goes to the bad the way his mind works	G2
Remains incomprehensible to become a pimp	N
Or deal in fake jewellery or ruin a fine tenor voice	H2
For effects that bring down the house could happen to all	I2
But the best and the worst of us	J2
That is why I suppose	K2
The best and worst never stayed here long but sought	L2
Immoderate soils where the beauty was not so external	F
The light less public and the meaning of life	M2
Something more than a mad camp 'Come ' cried the granite wastes	N2
How evasive is your humour how accidental	F
Your kindest kiss how permanent is death Saints to be	B
Slipped away sighing Come purred the clays and gravels	N2
On our plains there is room for armies to drill rivers	N2
Wait to be tamed and slaves to construct you a tomb	O2
In the grand manner soft as the earth is mankind and both	P2
Need to be altered Intendant Caesars rose and	Q2
Left slamming the door But the really reckless were fetched	R2
By an older colder voice the oceanic whisper	R
I am the solitude that asks and promises nothing	G
That is how I shall set you free There is no love	S2
There are only the various envies all of them sad	T2
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They were right my dear all those voices were right	U2
And still are this land is not the sweet home that it looks	N2
Nor its peace the historical calm of a site	U2
Where something was settled once and for all A back ward	V2
And dilapidated province connected	W2
To the big busy world by a tunnel with a certain	I
Seedy appeal is that all it is now Not quite	U2
It has a worldy duty which in spite of itself	X2
It does not neglect but calls into question	I
All the Great Powers assume it disturbs our rights The poet	M
Admired for his earnest habit of calling	G
The sun the sun his mind Puzzle is made uneasy	N2
By these marble statues which so obviously doubt	Y2
His antimythological myth and these gamins	N2
Pursuing the scientist down the tiled colonnade	Z2
With such lively offers rebuke his concern for Nature's	N2
Remotest aspects I too am reproached for what	M
And how much you know Not to lose time not to get caught	A3
Not to be left behind not please to resemble	F
The beasts who repeat themselves or a thing like water	R
Or stone whose conduct can be predicted these	N2
Are our common prayer whose greatest comfort is music	B3
Which can be made anywhere is invisible	F
And does not smell In so far as we have to look forward	P
To death as a fact no doubt we are right But if	C3
Sins can be forgiven if bodies rise from the dead	D3
These modifications of matter into	O
Innocent athletes and gesticulating fountains	N2
Made solely for pleasure make a further point	E3
The blessed will not care what angle they are regarded from	F3
Having nothing to hide Dear I know nothing of	S2
Either but when I try to imagine a faultless love	S2
Or the life to come what I hear is the murmur	R
Of underground streams what I see is a limestone landscape	N

W. H. Auden

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