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I WANDER all night in my vision	A
Stepping with light feet swiftly and noiselessly stepping and	B
stopping	C
Bending with open eyes over the shut eyes of sleepers	D
Wandering and confused lost to myself ill assorted contradictory	E
Pausing gazing bending and stopping	C
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How solemn they look there stretch'd and still	F
How quiet they breathe the little children in their cradles	G
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The wretched features of ennuy s the white features of	H
corpses the livid faces of drunkards the sick gray faces of	H
onanists	G
The gash'd bodies on battle fields the insane in their strong door'd	B
rooms the sacred idiots the new born emerging from gates and	B
the dying emerging from gates	G
The night pervades them and infolds them	I
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The married couple sleep calmly in their bed he with his palm on the	J
hip of the wife and she with her palm on the hip of the	J
husband	B
The sisters sleep lovingly side by side in their bed	B
The men sleep lovingly side by side in theirs	G
And the mother sleeps with her little child carefully wrapt	B
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The blind sleep and the deaf and dumb sleep	K
The prisoner sleeps well in the prison the run away son sleeps	G
The murderer that is to be hung next day how does he sleep	K
And the murder'd person how does he sleep	K
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The female that loves unrequited sleeps	G
And the male that loves unrequited sleeps	G
The head of the money maker that plotted all day sleeps	G
And the enraged and treacherous dispositions all all sleep	K
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I stand in the dark with drooping eyes by the worst suffering and the	J
most restless	G
I pass my hands soothingly to and fro a few inches from them	I
The restless sink in their beds they fitfully sleep	K
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Now I pierce the darkness new beings appear	L
The earth recedes from me into the night	B
I saw that it was beautiful and I see that what is not the earth is	G
beautiful	M
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I go from bedside to bedside I sleep close with the other sleepers	G
each in turn	N
I dream in my dream all the dreams of the other dreamers	G
And I become the other dreamers	G
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I am a dance Play up there the fit is whirling me fast	B
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I am the ever laughing it is new moon and twilight	B
I see the hiding of douceurs I see nimble ghosts whichever way I	O
look	P
Cache and cache again deep in the ground and sea and where it is	G
neither ground or sea	G
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Well do they do their jobs those journeymen divine	Q
Only from me can they hide nothing and would not if they could	B
I reckon I am their boss and they make me a pet besides	G
And surround me and lead me and run ahead when I walk	R
To lift their cunning covers to signify me with stretch'd arms and	B
resume the way	S
Onward we move a gay gang of blackguards with mirth shouting music	T
and wild flapping pennants of joy	U
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I am the actor the actress the voter the politician	A
The emigrant and the exile the criminal that stood in the box	G
He who has been famous and he who shall be famous after to day	S
The stammerer the well form'd person the wasted or feeble person	A
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I am she who adorn'd herself and folded her hair expectantly	M
My truant lover has come and it is dark	V
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Double yourself and receive me darkness	G
Receive me and my lover too he will not let me go without him	W
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I roll myself upon you as upon a bed I resign myself to the	J
dusk	X
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He whom I call answers me and takes the place of my lover	Y
He rises with me silently from the bed	B
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Darkness you are gentler than my lover his flesh was sweaty and	B
panting	C
I feel the hot moisture yet that he left me	G
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My hands are spread forth I pass them in all directions	G
I would sound up the shadowy shore to which you are journeying	C
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Be careful darkness already what was it touch'd me	G
I thought my lover had gone else darkness and he are one	A
I hear the heart beat I follow I fade away	S
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O hot cheek'd and blushing O foolish hectic	T
O for pity's sake no one must see me now my clothes were stolen	A
while I was abed	B
Now I am thrust forth where shall I run	A
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Pier that I saw dimly last night when I look'd from the windows	G
Pier out from the main let me catch myself with you and stay I	O
will not chafe you	Z
I feel ashamed to go naked about the world	B
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I am curious to know where my feet stand and what this is flooding	C
me childhood or manhood and the hunger that crosses the	J
bridge between	A2
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The cloth laps a first sweet eating and drinking	C
Laps life swelling yolks laps ear of rose corn milky and just	B
ripen'd	B
The white teeth stay and the boss tooth advances in darkness	G
And liquor is spill'd on lips and bosoms by touching glasses and the	J
best liquor afterward	B
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I descend my western course my sinews are flaccid	B
Perfume and youth course through me and I am their wake	B2
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It is my face yellow and wrinkled instead of the old woman's	G
I sit low in a straw bottom chair and carefully darn my grandson's	G
stockings	G
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It is I too the sleepless widow looking out on the winter midnight	B
I see the sparkles of starshine on the icy and pallid earth	C2
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A shroud I see and I am the shroud I wrap a body and lie in the	J
coffin	D2
It is dark here under ground it is not evil or pain here it is	G
blank here for reasons	G
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It seems to me that everything in the light and air ought to be	G
happy	G
Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave let him know he has	G
enough	E2
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I see a beautiful gigantic swimmer swimming naked through the eddies	G
of the sea	G
His brown hair lies close and even to his head he strikes out with	F2
courageous arms he urges himself with his legs	G
I see his white body I see his undaunted eyes	G
I hate the swift running eddies that would dash him head foremost on	G2
the rocks	G
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What are you doing you ruffianly red trickled waves	G
Will you kill the courageous giant Will you kill him in the prime of	H
his middle age	H2
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Steady and long he struggles	G
He is baffled bang'd bruis'd he holds out while his strength holds	G
out	B
The slapping eddies are spotted with his blood they bear him away	S
they roll him swing him turn him	W
His beautiful body is borne in the circling eddies it is continually	G
bruis'd on rocks	G
Swiftly and out of sight is borne the brave corpse	G
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I turn but do not extricate myself	I2
Confused a past reading another but with darkness yet	B
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The beach is cut by the razory ice wind the wreck guns sound	B
The tempest lulls the moon comes floundering through the drifts	G
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I look where the ship helplessly heads end on I hear the burst as	G
she strikes I hear the howls of dismay they grow fainter and	B
fainter	Y
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I cannot aid with my wringing fingers	G
I can but rush to the surf and let it drench me and freeze upon me	G
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I search with the crowd not one of the company is wash'd to us	G
alive	J2
In the morning I help pick up the dead and lay them in rows in a	J
barn	K2
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Now of the older war days the defeat at Brooklyn	A
Washington stands inside the lines he stand	B

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