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It was not meant for human eyes,
\nThat combat on the shabby patch
\nOf clods and trampled turf that lies
\nSomewhere beneath the sodden skies
\nFor eye of toad or adder to catch.<\/p>\n

And having seen it I accuse
\nThe crested animal in his pride,
\nArrayed in all the royal hues
\nWhich hide the claws he well can use
\nTo tear the heart out of the side.<\/p>\n

Body of leopard, eagle’s head
\nAnd whetted beak, and lion’s mane,
\nAnd frost-grey hedge of feathers spread
\nBehind — he seemed of all things bred.
\nI shall not see his like again.<\/p>\n

As for his enemy there came in
\nA soft round beast as brown as clay;
\nAll rent and patched his wretched skin;
\nA battered bag he might have been,
\nSome old used thing to throw away.<\/p>\n

Yet he awaited face to face
\nThe furious beast and the swift attack.
\nSoon over and done. That was no place
\nOr time for chivalry or for grace.
\nThe fury had him on his back.<\/p>\n

And two small paws like hands flew out
\nTo right and left as the trees stood by.
\nOne would have said beyond a doubt
\nThat was the very end of the bout,
\nBut that the creature would not die.<\/p>\n

For ere the death-stroke he was gone,
\nWrithed, whirled, into his den,
\nSafe somehow there. The fight was done,
\nAnd he had lost who had all but won.
\nBut oh his deadly fury then.<\/p>\n

A while the place lay blank, forlorn,
\nDrowsing as in relief from pain.
\nThe cricket chirped, the grating thorn
\nStirred, and a little sound was born.
\nThe champions took their posts again.<\/p>\n

And all began. The stealthy paw
\nSlashed out and in. Could nothing save
\nThese rags and tatters from the claw?
\nNothing. And yet I never saw
\nA beast so helpless and so brave.<\/p>\n

And now, while the trees stand watching, still
\nThe unequal battle rages there.
\nThe killing beast that cannot kill
\nSwells and swells in his fury till
\nYou’d almost think it was despair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Edwin Muir<\/a><\/div>\n
\"Edwin_Muir\"<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
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“I was born before the <\/a>Industrial Revolution<\/a><\/em>, and am now about two hundred years old. But I have skipped a hundred and fifty of them. I was really born in 1737, and till I was fourteen no time-accidents happened to me. Then in 1751 I set out from Orkney for Glasgow. When I arrived I found that it was not 1751, but 1901, and that a hundred and fifty years had been burned up in my two-day’s journey. But I myself was still in 1751, and remained there for a long time. All my life since I have been trying to overhaul that invisible leeway. No wonder I am obsessed with Time.” (Extract from Diary.<\/em>
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