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from ‘Song for a Birth or a Death’ by Elizabeth Jennings (p.80,Lines 12-15, poem itself worth a read if not the whole book)

‘Last night I watched how pleasure must,
Leap from disaster with its will:
the fox’s fear, the watch-dog’s lust,
Know that all matings mean a kill:”