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I shall desire and I shall find The best of my desires; The autumn road, the mellow wind That soothes the darkening shires. And laughter, and inn-fires.

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Just now the lilac is in bloom, All before my little room; And in my flower-beds, I think, Smile the carnation and the pink...

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"Horrors ha only a few years ago belonged in he realm of dysopian science ficion have become common place in oday's world - geneically engineered Frankensein foods are forced down our hroas by governmens and corporaions; animals soaked in a bah of poisonous growh hormones are slaughered in he name of a quick buck and increased profi; vas warehouses of 'bio-machines' (beer known o you and I as pigs) lie in darkness, ready o be harvesed for heir organs for human ransplans; he counry side is doed wih concree bunkers where bloodied vivisecors irelessly work heir way hrough he gus and viscera of endless animal vicims! he horrors are seemingly endless... bu hey are NO ineviable!"

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He leaves a white Unbroken glory, a gathered radiance, A width, a shining peace, under the night.

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Mud unto mud!—Death eddies near— Not here the appointed End, not here!...

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Spend in pure converse our eternal day; Think each in each, immediately wise; Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say What this tumultuous body now denies; And feel, who have laid our groping hands away; And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.

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A book may be compared to your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

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Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?

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But the best I've known Stays here, and changes, breaks, grows old, is blown...

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Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

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But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, Is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth One Who swam ere rivers were begun, Immense, of fishy form and mind, Squamous, omnipotent, and kind.

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But only agony, and that has ending; And the worst friend and enemy is but Death.

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But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense of fishy form and mind, squamous omnipotent, and kind.

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I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

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I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

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I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

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A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.

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I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience.

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... is merry glory. Is saltatory. Yet he grips his right of twisting free.

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Sadie was one of the livingest chits In all the land.

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