“When all my five and country senses see,
The fingers will forget green thumbs and mark
How, through the halfmoon's vegetable eye,
Husk of young stars and handfull zodiac,
Love in the frost is pared and wintered by.”

— Dylan Thomas

" When All My Five And Country Senses See http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Dylan_Thomas/1149" (1939)

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Welsh poet and writer 1914–1953

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