Some of them long sleepers for always,

Some of them tumbling to sleep to-morrow for always,

Fixed in the drag of the world’s heartbreak,

Eating and drinking, toiling ... on a long job of killing.

Sixteen million men.

NOCTURNE IN A DESERTED BRICKYARD

Stuff of the moon

Runs on the lapping sand

Out to the longest shadows.

Under the curving willows,