The wind

W. Wordsworth

To the lean clean land, to the last cold height

you shall come with a whickering breath

from the depths of despair or the depths of delight

stript stark to the wind of death.

And whether you're sinless, or whether you've sinned,

it's useless to whimper and whine,

for the lean clean blade of the cutthroat wind

will slit your weasand and mine.