And then when then I die    I feel I shall say    I have not understood    I have not understood any of this    My eyes are still coaldark    I have not understood    Around and in my eyes the tiny flecks    Of swirling crippled confused lights    And to my heart I will whisper    Softly quietly    "There is no death there is no death"    (And goodbye to you all)    Under the gorgon grinnd arches    Of London's great vaults    I have not understood    Under the sunpuckered roofs of Kathmandu    I have not understood    Along the soulstoned streets    Of Lower    And of Higher Germanie    I have not understood    Leipzig: blackeyed pain and loss: she    I have not understood    In Clare near I    The empty lakes are open in the distance    And too close is the faminereatchingroad    All these are ghosts    There I have not understood    (In the Heart of the Wood    Oh there have I understood)    I rested at the temple of Great Black Time - Her    And did not understand    Though animalbled fleshmarbled rivers ran in Her honour    His buckled body in blood    Returns to the prebirth poise    Spreadeagled like starfish -    There in His eyes:    Incomprehension mute pain disbelief what    Blood there meant sorrow trickles there    This I could not understand    I bend the pages of yet another book    And in its lines Great Black Lines    I have not understood    Please gramerey pray for me    And oh goodbye sweetestheart    The wind roars in the nearness    And there in my heart    And all the clouds are spiralling towards us    Descent indeed to the centre of it all    Skipping lightly and lying truly    This we shall understand    I hope...       Wet bent humped trees    The great ones - there    On the lapped shore    Dai Ichi    There also I do not know    This is all unknowable    And as the dust covers    My empty eyes    You shall read in these foolish gapes    Oh that I have not understood    (But if you look for the stag and the cross conjoined    There on my arm look there    There I have understood very well)       Now you are all fading    All fading    As my age creeps on    As This Age stumbles on    Fires in the earth    Fires in the sky    Fires in our hearts    Fires everywhere    The black eyes    Already blacken    And this I have not understood       Not peace    But a sword    This and He    Unfortunately    I have understood    Under the bowered greenwood tree    When first I lay    Bright starre with Thee    Under the velvet branches dear    When sun and moon both came so near    Under the starlit open dome    Under the starsharp pointed lights    Under the starloved greeny earth    When first I wanted to hold You    And all the world halfdead and halflive    Spat into my mouth    Bluesea bitterwater    And I am almost dead    And I have not understood       Under the rain and teeth of gods    Under the pain and sleeping liddy eyes    Under the brokkd wetful heaven    If you are there    If you are there    If you are there    Then I am singing with my eyes    If you are there