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Nothing To Be Said

 For nations vague as weed,
For nomads among stones,
Small-statured cross-faced tribes
And cobble-close families
In mill-towns on dark mornings
Life is slow dying.
So are their separate ways Of building, benediction, Measuring love and money Ways of slow dying.
The day spent hunting pig Or holding a garden-party, Hours giving evidence Or birth, advance On death equally slowly.
And saying so to some Means nothing; others it leaves Nothing to be said.

Poem by Philip Larkin
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