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He said it doesn’t look good
he said it looks bad in fact real bad
he said I counted thirty-two of them on one lung before
I quit counting them
I said I’m glad I wouldn’t want to know
about any more being there than that
he said are you a religious man do you kneel down
in forest groves and let yourself ask for help
when you come to a waterfall
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I HEED not that my earthly lot

Hath -- little of Earth in it -

That years of love have been forgot

In the hatred of a minute: -

I mourn not that the desolate

Are happier, sweet, than I,

But that you sorrow for my fate

Who am a passer by.

She was a Phantom of delight

When first she gleamed upon my sight;

A lovely Apparition, sent

To be a moment's ornament;

Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair;

Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair;

But all things else about her drawn

From May-time and the cheerful Dawn;

A dancing Shape, an Image gay,

To haunt, to startle, and way-lay.

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Don’t weep, insects -
Lovers, stars themselves,
Must part.

Everything I touch
with tenderness, alas,
pricks like a bramble.

What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.

Winter seclusion -
Listening, that evening,
To the rain in the mountain.

In spring rain
a pretty girl
yawning.

O snail
Climb Mount Fuji,
But slowly, slowly!

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