From the book:
COLDNESS IN LOVE
And you remember, in the afternoon The sea and the sky went grey, as if there had sunk A flocculent dust on the floor of the world: the festoon Of the sky sagged dusty as spider cloth,And coldness clogged the sea, till it ceased to croon. A dank, sickening scent came up from the grime Of weed that blackened the shore, so that I recoiled Feeling the raw cold dun me: and all the time You leapt about on the slippery rocks, and threw The words that rang with a brassy, shallow chime.And all day long that raw and ancient cold Deadened me hrough, till the grey downs darkened to sleep.Then I longed for you with your mantle of love to fold Me over, and drive from out of my body the deepCold that had sunk to my soul, and there kept hold.
