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Epitaph

by William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams

An old willow with hollow branches
slowly swayed his few high gright tendrils
and sang:
Love is a young green willow
shimmering at the bare wood's edge.




Quotes of the Day

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
• Mohandas K. Gandhi


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    Miserimus
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    "Sounding through the silent dimness Where I faint and weary lay, Spake a poet: 'I will lead thee To the land of song to-day.'" I O bards! weak heritors of passion and of pain!