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PROSPECT

Though loves languish and sour
Fruit puts the teeth on edge,
Though the ragged nests are empty of song
In the barbed and blistered hedge,

Though old men's lives and children's bricks
Spell out a Machiavellian creed,
Though the evil Past is ever present
And the happy Present is past indeed,

Though the stone grows and grows
That we roll up the hill
And the hill grows and grows
And gravity conquers still,

Though Nature's laws exploit
And defeat anarchic men,
Though every sandcastle concept
Being ad hoc must crumble again,

And though today is arid,
We know--and knowing bless--
That rooted in futurity
There is a plant of tenderness.

-44-

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Publication Information: Book Title: Springboard: 1941-1944. Contributors: Louis MacNeice - author. Publisher: Random House. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1945. Page Number: 44.
    
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