A worm tells summer better than the clock, The slug's a liv… - Dylan Thomas

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A worm tells summer better than the clock,
The slug's a living calendar of days;
What shall it tell me if a timeless insect
Says the world wears away?

Dylan Thomas

Collected Poems · June 1, 1938 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer.

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It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.

before you let the sun in, mind he wipes his shoes.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

A worm tells summer better than the clock, The slug's a living calendar of days; What shall it tell me if a timeless insect Says the world wears away? - Dylan Thomas

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