The Embankment

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 Once, in finesse of fiddles found I ecstasy, 
 In the flash of gold heels on the hard pavement.
 Now see I
 That warmth's the very stuff of poesy.
 Oh, God, make small
 The old star-eaten blanket of the sky,
 That I may fold it round me and in comfort lie.

© Thomas Ernest Hulme