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Excerpt from Counter-Attack, and Other Poems
In appearance he 13 tall, big - boned, 1005e built. He is clean shaven, pale or with a ¿ush; has a heavy jaw, wide mouth with the upper lip slightly protruding and the curve of it very pronounced like that of a shrivel led leaf (as I have noticed is common in many poets). His nose is aquiline, the nostrils being wide and heavily arched. This characteristic and the fullness, depth and heat of his dark eyes give him the air of a sullen falcon. He speaks slowly, enunciating the words as if they pained him, in a voice that has something of the troubled thickness apparent in the voices Of those who emerge from a deep grief. As he speaks, his large hands, roughened by trench toil and by riding, wan der aimlessly until some emotion grips him when the knuckles harden and he clutches at his knees or at the edge of the table. And all the while he will be breath ing hard like a man who has swum a distance. When he reads his poems he chants and one would think that he communed with himself save that, at the pauses, he shoots a powerful glance at the listener. Between the poems he is still but moves his lips. He likes best to speak of hunting (he will shout of it l), of Open air mornings when the gorse alone ¿ames brighter than the sky, of country quiet, of his mother.
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