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Monday, January 21, 2008

O Sweet Spontaneous Earth!....

O sweet spontaneous
earth how often have
the
doting

fingers of
prurient philosophers pinched

and
poked
thee?,
has the naughty thumb
of science prodded
thy

beauty? , how
often have religions taken
thee upon their scraggy knees
squeezing and

buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive
gods
(but

true

to the incomparable
couch of death thy
rhythmic
lover

thou answerest


them only with

spring)


e.e.cummings

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