New Year On Dartmoor

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This is newness : every little tawdryObstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar,Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto

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This is newness : every little tawdry
Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar,
Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you
Don't know what to make of the sudden slippiness,
The blind, white, awful, inaccessible slant.
There's no getting up it by the words you know.
No getting up by elephant or wheel or shoe.
We have only come to look. You are too new
To want the world in a glass hat.

 You are too newTo want the world in a glass hat

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