"The footpath down to the well is healed."
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"Haven't you heard, though, About the ships where war has found them out At sea, about the towns where war has come Through opening clouds at night with droning speed Further o'erhead than all but stars and angels And children in the ships and in the towns?"
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"... War is for everyone, for children too. I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't. The best way is to come uphill with me And have our fire and laugh and be afraid."
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"It comes down to a doubt about the wisdom Of having children after having had them, So there is nothing we can do about it But warn the children they perhaps should have none."
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"No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found."
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"States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three."
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"How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?"
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"There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken."
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"God turned to speak to me (Don't anybody laugh); God found I wasn't there At least not over half."
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"You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose."
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"Bounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready."
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"I am one who has been acquainted with the night"
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"Live and let live, believe and let believe. 'Twas said the lesser gods were only traits Of the one awful God. Just so the saints Are God's white light refracted into colors."
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"I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart"
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"Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss."
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"Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred; Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature."
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"For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery."
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"For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation."
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"A name with meaning could bring up a child, Taking the child out of the parents' hands. Better a meaningless name, I should say, As leaving more to nature and happy chance. Name children some names and see what you do."
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"Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in, The tribute of the current to the source. It is from this in nature we are from. It is most us."
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