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Ecstasy affords
the occasion and expediency determines the form.

Marianne Moore

The world's an orphans' home. Shall we never have peace without sorrow? without pleas of the dying for help that won't come. O quiet form upon the dust, I cannot look and yet I must.

Marianne Moore

Another armored animal — scale
lapping scale with spruce cone regularity until they form the uninterrupted central
tail row!

Marianne Moore