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“Here is the ancient floor, Footworn and hollowed and thin, Here was the former door Where the dead feet walked in.”
- Date
- 1901
Meaning of “Here is the ancient floor, Footworn and hollowed…”
A familiar interior is revisited through traces of people who have died, turning worn architecture into a physical prompt for family memory and loss.
Where does it come from?
“The Self-Unseeing,” Poems of the Past and the Present (1901), Project Gutenberg #3168. The poem reconstructs a remembered domestic scene; its dead belong to that literary memory.
