The first shipment was lost in the Atlantic in mid-October. Six hundred china dolls went to the bottom not far out from Rotterdam, with nothing either divine or human to prevent that disastrous 

In the half-sun of long days
let us draw our tired bones together

let us forget the unfaithful ones

I was fourteen years old,
brooding, a proud of it,
slim, lithe and frowning,

Now this is it, said Death,
and as far as I could see
Death was looking at me.

A man says yes without knowing
how to decide even what the question is,
and is caught up, and then is carried along

I went into the tool shops
in all innocence
to buy a simple hammer

Why such harsh machinery?
Why, to write down the stuff
and people of every day,