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Larkin

 

Philip Larkin
1922-1985

"Days"

 

What are days for?
Days are where we live.
They come, they wake us
Time and time over.
They are to be happy in:
Where can we live but days?

Ah, solving that question
brings the priest and the doctor
In their long coats
Running over the fields.

© Philip Larkin
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