1845

O Dreary life! we cry, O dreary life!

And still the generations of the birds
Sing through our sighing, and the flocks and herds
Serenely live while we are keeping strife
With Heaven s true purpose in us, as a knife
Against which we may struggle. Ocean girds
Unslackened the dry land
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anyone lived in a pretty how t...
E. E. Cummings
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anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn t he danced his did.
Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn t they reaped their same
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