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Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the black bird.
For the listener, who listens in the snow, And, nothing himself, beholds Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.
I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by,
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.
I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
The sea is everything. It covers seven-tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
See how the trees beside a stream in flood Save, if they yield to force, each spray unharmed, But by resisting perish root and branch.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Flood-tide below me! I see you face to face! Clouds of the west—sun there half an hour high—I see you also face to face.
Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling The wind is passing thro’.
I taste a liquor never brewed, From tankards scooped in pearl; Not all the vats upon the Rhine Yield such an alcohol!
My heart in hiding Stirred for a bird,—the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work— I am the grass; I cover all.
