I remember rooms that have had their part
in the steady slowing of the heart.
The room in Paris, the room in Geneva,
the little damp room with the seaweed smell,
and that ceaseless maddening sound of the tide-
rooms where for good or for ill- things died.
But there is the room where we two lie dead,
though every morning we seem to wake and might just
as well seem to sleep again
as we shall somewhere in the other quieter, dustier bed
out there in the sun- in the rain.
