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| Description: | You who were spared I talked with night but last about the velvet years I remember from the window The one that is blown is the one gone wild |
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| Description: | His mind wandered without rescue The man is innocent. and had to be brought home to the corner and stapled to the ground |
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| Description: | Let us be wrong in all our judgments At that fine point We cannot quite believe the steps between the superstitions The feathers, the little e... |
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| Description: | Height is might The expansionists and the young want up the elevation An overview high, and especially away |
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| Description: | Dearest Daughter, The year is flown. We can't compete and we stand alone |
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| Description: | "I am the man with measuring pole on my shoulder. At the age of 21 years I was sawing log in the woods. Since then I have seen the old time way go and the ... |
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| Description: | For any master line drawn fine enough or spoken well let us call all professionals to wear the laurel and deck the Halls of Fame |
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| Description: | A child could count in rounded numbers the Christmas chance of pudding from the sky |
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| Description: | Each little world has its private Atlas working his ethic in longhand toward the stage set for the point of No Return |
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| Description: | No one will tell No one would dare to put in print the Secret Knowledge. That word of mouth is frozen deep and all Report is still |
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| Description: | That cottage all with melting roses — It was such fun to think ahead of it, to condition all that air with smokesuds and pick the mud out of o... |
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| Description: | That time of year. Let's go watch the big wheels The Saint, the King of Breakup with his Fool, parade the tarot Jack of Dice, their drumme... |
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| Description: | The disconnection sways, rings out the moving targets racing with the mind in mathematic sound that vanish in the distance and then appear again a... |
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| Description: | Far out The last report on peace to reach us here was neither a promise nor easy Faith but the hardest of all, the waiting for never an... |
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| Description: | Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell |
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| Description: | Lightning cleared the air, that we could see just how deep the rootland lay Far below the wished for, but not beyond the Will |
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| Description: | Exercise the body to work off the weight of mind, of pushing uphill a month-long night of doom. A better foot is leavened from the bottom o... |
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| Description: | That instinct path to the waiting door is a mile of running beyond the last ounce of bursting heart |
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| Description: | Although they remembered everything that could not be tolerated, their better natures, surfacing through waves of church-worn care, prevailed over... |
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| Description: | Either way, the sides are bridged, from wine to water, cutting back to wine Paradoxical appointments, anticipated hour — No one event can ... |
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