“His eyes are quickened so with grief,
He can watch a grass or leaf
Every instant grow; he can
Clearly through a flint wall see,
Or watch the startled spirit flee
From the throat of a dead man.”

—  Robert Graves

"Lost Love," lines 1-6, from Treasure Box (1919).
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