Louis MacNeice




Coda

Maybe we knew each other better 
When the night was young and unrepeated 
And the moon stood still over Jericho. 

So much for the past; in the present 
There are moments caught between heart-beats 
When maybe we know each other better. 

But what is that clinking in the darkness? 
Maybe we shall know each other better 
When the tunnels meet beneath the mountain.