...the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy...Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for...

...the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy...Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him...

...They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Where the dogs go on with the doggy life and the torturer's horse Scratches its...Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for...

...at the edge of the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course in Anyhow in a comer, some untidy spot Where the dogs...In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything tums away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken...

...Innocents] They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy...Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for...

...the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy...horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman...

...the wood: They never forgot that even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot where the dogs go on with their doggy...horse scratches its innocent behind on a tree. In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman...

...martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their dogg)- life and the torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree. In Brneghel's Icarus, for instance : how evenifting turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster ; the...

...the old masters, how it often happens off-centre, almost out of sight in a corner, in what he calls 'some untidy spot /Where the dogs go on with their doggy life'. Auden saw the artist as someone who observed 'the doggy life' - since the 1960s we have come to expect...

...the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy...Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for...