Latest Face

(by Philip Larkin)

Latest face, so effortless Your great arrival at my eyes, No one standing near could guess Your beauty had no home till then; Precious vagrant, recognise y look, and do not turn again!

"dmirer and admired embrace on a useless level, #here $ contain your current grace, You my %udgement; yet to move $nto the real untidy air $t brings no lasting attribute & 'argains, suffering, and love, Not this al#ays&planned salute!

Lies gro# dark around us( #ill )he statue of your beauty #alk* ust $ #ade behind it, till +omething,s found & or is not found & Far too late for turning back* -r, if $ #ill not shift my ground, $s your po#er actual & can .enial of you, you duck and run! +tay out of sight and double rounds, Leap from the sun #ith mask and brand "nd murder and not understand* "nd murder and not understand* You murder and not understand*