<link href="ddd-ebooks-master-styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:f0b21b23-f9ab-46f2-92fb-a26e222f7989" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <h1 class="center"><a id="note"/>NOTE</h1> <p class="noindent" style="margin-top: 1em"><a id="pXiX"/>The prologue in verse, written for this collected edition of my poems, is intended as an address to my readers, the strangers.</p> <p>This book contains most of the poems I have written, and all, up to the present year, that I wish to preserve. Some of them I have revised a little, but if I went on revising everything that I now do not like in this book I should be so busy that I would have no time to try to write new poems.</p> <p>I read somewhere of a shepherd who, when asked why he made, from within fairy rings, ritual observances to the moon to protect his flocks, replied: ‘I’d be a damn’ fool if I didn’t!’ These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn’ fool if they weren’t.</p> <p class="right" style="margin-top: 1em"><span class="smallcaps">DYLAN THOMAS<br/>LAUGHARNE, WALES, NOVEMBER 1952</span></p> </body> </html>