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The line must terminate.
Yet my heart rises, I know I've gladdened a lifetime knotting, undoing a fishnet of tarred rope; the net will hang on the wall when the fish are eaten,
nailed like illegible bronze on the futureless future.
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Christ walks on the black water. In Black Mud Darts the kingfisher. On Corpus Christi, heart, Over the drum-beat of St. Stephen's choir I hear him, Stupor Mundi, and the mud Flies from his hunching wings and beak—my heart, The blue kingfisher dives on you in fire.
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Who asks for me, the Shelley of my age, must lay his heart out for my bed and board.
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It is night,
And it is vanity, and age
Blackens the heart of Adam. Fear,
The yellow chirper, beaks its cage.
Robert Lowell
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
March 1, 1917
Died:
September 12, 1977
(aged 60)
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