Stevie Smith - Wild creatures' eyes, the colonel said, Are innocent and fathomlessAnd...

Wild creatures' eyes, the colonel said, Are innocent and fathomlessAnd when I look at them I seeThat they are not aware of meAnd oh I find and oh I blessA comfort in this emptinessThey only see me when they wantTo pounce upon me at the hunt; But in the tame varietyThere couches an anxietyAs if they yearned, yet knew not whatThey yearned for, nor they yearned for not. And so my dog would look at meAnd it was pitiful to seeSuch love and such dependency. The human heart is not at easeWith animals that look like these.

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Wild creatures' eyes, the colonel said, Are innocent and fathomlessAnd when I look at them I seeThat they are not aware of meAnd oh I find and oh I blessA comfort in this emptinessThey only see me when they wantTo pounce upon me at the hunt; But in the tame varietyThere couches an anxietyAs if they yearned, yet knew not whatThey yearned for, nor they yearned for not. And so my dog would look at meAnd it was pitiful to seeSuch love and such dependency. The human heart is not at easeWith animals that look like these. Stevie Smith
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