William Empson — English Poet born on September 27, 1906, died on April 15, 1984

Sir William Empson was an English literary critic and poet, widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works, a practice fundamental to New Criticism. His best-known work is his first, Seven Types of Ambiguity, published in 1930... (wikipedia)

My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.
Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.
It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.
Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.