To start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.

Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.

Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past the poppies bluish neutral distance Ends the land suddenly beyond a beach Of shapes and shingle. Here is unfenced existence: Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.

It becomes still more difficult to find
Words at once true and kind,
Or not untrue and not unkind.

Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.

I have wished you something None of the others would.