And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its … - Theodore Roethke

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Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

Theodore Roethke

And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world.

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We think by feeling. What is there to know?

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Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion

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But when I breath with the birds, The spirit of wrath becomes the spirit of blessings, And the dead begin from their dark to sing in my sleep.

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(I measure time by how a body sways. )

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