Three Dylan Thomas Poems

Song Cycle by Billy Jim Layton (b. 1924)

?. Twenty‑four years  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
Twenty-four years remind the tears of my eyes.
(Bury the dead for fear that they walk to the grave in labour.)
In the groin of the natural doorway I crouched like a tailor
Sewing a shroud for a journey
By the light of the meat-eating sun.
Dressed to die, the sensual strut begun.
With my red veins full of money,
In the final direction of the elementary town
I advance as long as forever is.

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First published in Life and Letters Today, December 1938, revised 1939

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 75