“All this slowness, all this hardness,
The nearness that is waiting in my bed,
The gradual self-effacement of the dead.”

"The First Month of His Absence", line 33; p. 35.
Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets (1945)

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Welsh poet 1915–1944

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