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Have you wondered why all the windows in heaven were broken? Have you seen the homeless in the grave of God's hand? Do you want to acquaint the larks with the fatuous music of war?

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  1. But genius is an enormous littleness, a trickling Of heart that covers alike the hare and the hunter.
  2. O my love my dear lady The world is not very big There is only room for our wonder And the light leaning winds of heaven Are not more sweet…
  3. As we are so wonderfully done with each other We can walk into our separate sleep on floors of music where the milkwhite cloak of childhood…
  4. Your lips have splashed my dull house with print of flowers My hands are crooked where they spilled over your dear curving
  5. To leave the earth was my wish, and no will stayed my rising. Early, before sun had filled the roads with carts Conveying folk to weddings …
  6. The animal I wanted Couldn't get into the world... I can hear it crying When I sit like this away from life.

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