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We are born each morning, shelled upon A sheet of light that paves...

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Sleep will unshell us, but not yet.

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Only our hearts go beating towards the east.

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Wet century-wide trees Clash in surrounding starlessness above...

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No, I have never found The place where I could say...

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To watch that world come up like a cold sun, Rewarding others, is my liberty....

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Only one ship is seeking us a black- Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her back A huge and birdless silence. In her wake...

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The stained unsightly breath Of carious death.

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This is what we fear—no sight, no sound, No touch or taste or smell, nothing to think with,...

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With the nippers to wheel round the houses And the hall to paint in his old trousers...

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Sinking like sediment through the day To leave it clearer, onto the floor of the flask...

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what most appals Is that tiny first shiver,...

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The unique random blend Of families and fashions, there At last begin to loosen.

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Death quarrels, and shakes the tree, And fears are flowers, and flowers are generation,...

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The walking of girls' vulnerable feet, The heart in its own endless silence kneeling.

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To me this decaying landscape has its uses: To make me remember, who am always inclined to forget,...

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For sometimes it is shown to me in dreams The Eden that all wish to recreate...

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Over the threshold Nothing like death stepped, nothing like death paused,...

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For (as you will guess) it was death I had in mind; Who covets our breath, who seeks and will always find;...

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Living toys are something novel, But it soon wears off somehow....

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