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Flame and Shadow(70)
2023-12-06The Long Hill I must have passed the crest a while ago And now I am going down -Strange to have crossed the crest and not to know, But the brambles we...
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Flame and Shadow(71)
2023-12-06Summer Storm The panther wind Leaps out of the night, The snake of lightning Is twisting and white, The lion of thunder Roars ——and we Sit...
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2023-12-06In the End All that could never be said, All that could never be done, Wait for us at last Somewhere back of the sun; All the heart broke to forego Sh...
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Flame and Shadow(73)
2023-12-06“It Will Not Change“ It will not change now After so many years; Life has not broken it With parting or tears; Death will not alter it, It will live o...
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2023-12-06Water Lilies If you have forgotten water lilies floating On a dark lake among mountains in the afternoon shade, If you have forgotten their wet, sleep...
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Flame and Shadow(75)
2023-12-06Water Lilies If you have forgotten water lilies floating On a dark lake among mountains in the afternoon shade, If you have forgotten their wet, sleep...
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Flame and Shadow(76)
2023-12-06The Storm I thought of you when I was wakened By a wind that made me glad and afraid Of the rushing, pouring sound of the sea That the great trees mad...
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2023-12-06The Tree Oh to be free of myself, With nothing left to remember, To have my heart as bare As a tree in December; Resting, as a tree rests After its le...
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Flame and Shadow(78)
2023-12-06At Midnight Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, And the brave victories that seem so splendid A...
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2023-12-06Song Making My heart cried like a beaten child Ceaselessly all night long; I had to take my own cries And thread them into a song. One was a cry at bl...