They wear their godhead lightly.<br/>They look out from their hill and say,<br/>To themselves, We have nowhere to go but down; <br/>The great destination is to stay.
William DeWitt Snodgrass
And you, whiner, who wastes your time<br/>Dawdling over the remorseless earth,<br/>What evil, what unspeakable crime<br/>Have you made your life worth?
worth life earth evil made
Before we drained out one another's force<br/>With lies, self-denial, unspoken regret<br/>And the sick eyes that blame; before the divorce<br/>And the treachery.
lies blame eyes sick treachery
I happened to find<br/>Your picture. That picture. I stopped there cold,<br/>Like a man raking piles of dead leaves in his yard<br/>Who has turned up a severed hand.
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You must call up every strength you own<br/>And you can rip off the whole facial mask.
strength mask call
You still whispered you would not die.<br/>Yet in the nights I heard you cry<br/>Like a whipped child....
child die
Someone will have to weed and spread<br/>The young sprouts. Sprinkle them in the hour<br/>When shadow falls across their bed.<br/>You should try to look at them every day<br/>Because when they come to full flower<br/>I will be away.
shadow young bed
Sweet beast, I have gone prowling,<br/>a proud rejected man<br/>who lived along the edges<br/>catch as catch can; <br/>in darkness and in hedges<br/>I sang my sour tone<br/>and all my love was howling<br/>conspicuously alone.
sweet darkness beast proud love
Of all things, only we<br/>have power to choose that we should die; <br/>nothing else is free<br/>in this world to refuse it.
power world choose things die
I haven't read one book about<br/>A book or memorized one plot,<br/>Or found a mind I did not doubt,<br/>I learned one date. And then forgot.<br/>And one by one the solid scholars<br/>Get the degrees, the jobs, the dollars.
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destination great
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