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  • The Little Woman Of Clear River
    Clear River twists nine times about
    Clear River; but so deep
    That none can see the green sand.
    You hear the birds about Clear River: ...
  • Stranger Things Have Happened
    Do not believe that ink is always black,
    Or lime white, or lemon sour;
    You cannot ring one bell from two pagodas,
    You cannot have two governors for the city of Lang Son. ...
  • Misadventure
    Ever at the far side of the current
    The fishes hurl and swim,
    For pelicans and great birds
    Watch and go fishing ...
  • The Western Window
    At the head of a thousand roaring warriors,
    With the sound of gongs,
    My husband has departed
    Following glory. ...
  • Drink Song
    The crows have wakened me
    By cawing at the moon.
    I pray that I shall not think of him;
    I pray so intently ...
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Sonnet Xvi. To Kosciusko
 by John Keats

Good Kosciusko, thy great name alone
Is a full harvest whence to reap high feeling;
It comes upon us like the glorious pealing
Of the wide spheres -- an everlasting tone.
And now it tells me, that in worlds unknown,
The names of heroes, burst from clouds concealing,
And changed to harmonies, for ever stealing
Through cloudless blue, and round each silver throne.
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