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  • Onlybut this is rare When a beloved hand is laid in ours, When, jaded with the rush and glare Of the interminable hours, Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear, When our world-deafened ear Is by the tones of a loved voice caressed A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast, And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again. The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know.

    - Matthew Arnold
      Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'The Buried Life', l.77^87.

  • And all their lives, like that, they'll have to rush Forwards in reverse, always holding their caps.

    - Douglas Eaglesham Dunn
      'Glasgow Schoolboys, Running Backwards'.

  • As we rush, as we rush in the train, The trees and the houses go wheeling back, But the starry heavens above that plain Come flying on our track.

    -James pseudonym 'BV',ByssheVanolis Thomson
    ^5  'Sunday at Hampstead', stanza10.

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