Does anybody even remember this nowadays???? Makes me Wonderfully nostalgic
Leisure by W. H. Davies
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows:
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
"What have we done?": The Paying Guests
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[image: Phograph of Sarah Waters in 2014]
Sarah Waters in the Divinity School at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, in
2014. Image source: The Independent
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