after many a summer the swan dies
(one of five,the others having slipped thru your tentative grasp
along with much else of value
time is very short
work
the night is coming
and still the songs of small things
remember
all of it
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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica
Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.
Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors
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