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They darted down and rose up like a wave Or buzzed impetuously as before;...

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While the body's life, deep as a covered well, Instinctive as the wind, busy as May, Burns out a secret passageway to hell.

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Then one will say, 'He is not dead, maybe, Who was mortality's unshaken lover...

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When little boys grown patient at last, weary, Surrender their eyes immeasurably to the night,...

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The times have changed. Why do you make a fuss For privilege when there's no law of form?

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So you, O nameless Duchess who die young, Meet death somewhat lovingly...

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The graceless madness of her lips, Who was the powder-puff of life,...

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"The god has not yet answered to our pity For the black vision and tangle in her brains,...

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There at the church they took him through the door, His sweet wide mouth much as it was before,...

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When I have reached the shady underground With but sad hope of coming up again,...

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the quicksilver art Throws back the invisible but lightning mass...

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The poisoned rat in the wall Cuts through the wall like a knife,...

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This girl borrowed no dim light of a star Nor ever night held her in a dark mesh,...

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We are afraid that we have not lived. We are not afraid of dying.

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Uncle Ben's brass bullet-mould And powder horn, and Major Bogan's face...

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The dull conclave of crows'-footed faces Twitches as the man with one dollar enters;...

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One rumor straight comes huddling on another Of death, and death, and death!

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I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

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It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country.

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The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.

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