Quote #126

Should there be a question of returning or Of death in memory's dream? Is spring a sleep? This warmth is for lovers at last accomplishing Their love, this beginning, not resuming, this Booming and booming of the new-come bee.

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  2. The right, uplifted foreleg of the horse Suggested that, at the final funeral, The music halted and the horse stood still.
  3. The President ordains the bee to be Immortal. The President ordains.
  4. Nothing had happened because nothing had changed. Yet the General was rubbish in the end.
  5. The bees came booming as if they had never gone, As if hyacinths had never gone. We say This changes and that changes. Thus the constant Vi…
  6. Two things of opposite natures seem to depend On one another, as a man depends On a woman, day on night, the imagined On the real. This is …
  7. The old seraph, parcel-gilded, among violets Inhaled the appointed odor, while the doves Rose up like phantoms from chronologies.
  8. Music falls on the silence like a sense, A passion that we feel, not understand.

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