Start-Finish

A snake came to my water-trough,

bent double, like beggars under sacks,

bloody men are like bloody buses.

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Come live with me and be my love

do not go gentle into that good night –

earth has not anything to show more fair.

Everyone suddenly burst out singing.

Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up

from troubles of the world.

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Glory be to God for dappled things.

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Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,

had we but world enough, and time,

half-a-league, half-a-league,

how do I love thee? let me count the ways…

I am: yet what I am none cares or knows

I am not yet born; o hear me

I caught this morning morning’s minion kingdom,

I fled him, down the nights and down the days.

I have been so great a lover: filled my days.

I leant upon a coppice gate,

I love to see the old heath’s withered brake,

I love chocolate cake.

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I must go down to the seas again,

to the lonely sea and the sky.

I remember, I remember,

I wander’d lonely as a cloud –

I went out to the hazel wood.

I wonder will I speak to the girl –

If I should die, think only this of me.

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Let us go then, you and I,

lovliest of trees, the cherry now.

Remember me when I am gone away,

shall I compare thee to a summers day?

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair

stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,

the sea is calm to-night.

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The world is charged with the grandeur of God.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.

They shut the road through the woods,

two roads diverged in a yellow wood.

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Tyger! Tyger! burning bright –

whose woods these are I think I know.