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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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MONGAN LAMENTS THE CHANGE THAT HAS COME UPON HIM AND HIS BELOVED

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W.B. Yeats·1865–1939·Symbolism
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o you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns!I have been changed to a hound with one red ear;I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns,For somebody hid hatred and hope and desire and fearUnder my feet that they follow you night and day.A man with a hazel wand came without sound;He changed me suddenly; I was looking another way;And now my calling is but the calling of a hound;And Time and Birth and Change are hurrying by.I would that the boar without bristles had come from the WestAnd had rooted the sun and moon and stars out of the skyAnd lay in the darkness, grunting, and turning to his rest.
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