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“ I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar! ”

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If we knew how to find the lost, we would know how to rediscover the parts of our mindsleft behindin battle.

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I would have run awayInto the forestTo live in a nestMade of dreamsAnd green leaves

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Slavery all day,and then, suddenly, by nightfall- freedom!

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Night simply drapes itself over the dayAs if someone had lowered a curtain.The sky glitters and moves,Filled with shooting stars and fireflies.

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