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The Nightingales

by William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams

My shoes as I lean
unlacing them
stand out upon
flat worsted flowers
under my feet.
Nimbly the shadows
of my fingers play
unlacing
over shoes and flowers.




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Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?
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