<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=449149" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Soap Suds</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This brand of soap has the same smell as once in the big<br>House he visited when he was eight: the walls of the bathroom open<br>To reveal a lawn where a great yellow ball rolls back through a hoop <br>To rest at the head of a mallet held in the hands of a child.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And these were the joys of that house: a tower with a telescope;<br>Two great faded globes, one of the earth, one of the stars;<br>A stuffed black dog in the hall; a walled garden with bees;<br>A rabbit warren; a rockery; a vine under glass; the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To which he has now returned. The day of course is fine<br>And a grown-up voice cries Play! The mallet slowly swings,<br>Then crack, a great gong booms from the dog-dark hall and the ball<br>Skims forward through the hoop and then through the next and then</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through hoops where no hoops were and each dissolves in turn<br>And the grass has grown head-high and an angry voice cries Play!<br>But the ball is lost and the mallet slipped long since from the hands<br>Under the running tap that are not the hands of a child.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Louis+Macneice">Louis Macneice</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=449149" data-title="Soap Suds de Louis Macneice" data-description="This brand of soap has the same smell as once in the big House he visited when he was eight: the walls of the bathroom open To reveal a lawn where a great yellow ball rolls back through a hoop To rest at the head of a mallet held in the hands of ..."></div> </div> </div>

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