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‘Self-portrait’ - #RSThomas
(Laboratories of the Spirit, Macmillan)
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Text of poem -
SELF-PORTRAIT.
That resigned look! Here I am, it says; fifty-nine, balding, shirking the challenge of the young girls. Time running out now, and the soul unfinished. And the heart knows this is not the portrait it posed for. Keep the lips firm; too many disappointments have turned the mouth down at the corners. There is no surgery can mend those lines; cruelly the light fingers them and the mind winces. All that skill, life, on the carving of the curved nostril and to no end but disgust. The hurrying eyes pause, waiting for an outdistanced gladness to overtake them.

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