It is hard to think of the people of Thebes
as being fortunate (so much time has gone by),
but they possessed a machine of exact measure:

Into his kit when sent to the front he had tucked 
his black three-piece suit and through night 
after night of the frightful bombing, which

The mind may not mind death. It means
at last letting go, the inevitable
capitulation. After all, it’s tired,