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— E.E. Cummings

It is said that if the dead who died in the Great

War were placed head to feet, they would stretch

from New York to San Francisco, and from San

Francisco back again to New York; and if those

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Oscar Wilde·1854–1900·Aestheticism
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O outer senses there is peace,A dreamy peace on either handDeep silence in the shadowy land,Deep silence where the shadows cease. Save for a cry that echoes shrillFrom some lone bird disconsolate;A corncrake calling to its mate;The answer from the misty hill. And suddenly the moon withdrawsHer sickle from the lightening skies,And to her sombre cavern flies,Wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.
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