2024-12-14 More Good Today Day
【Carnet de Voyage I·An Odor from a Star (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Comes to my fancy, slight,
Tenderly spiced and gay,
As if a saraph's hand
Unloosed the fragrant silks
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2024-12-14 More Good Today Day
【Carnet de Voyage I·An Odor from a Star (1914)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Comes to my fancy, slight,
Tenderly spiced and gay,
As if a saraph's hand
Unloosed the fragrant silks
2024-12-14 Sustainable Entrepreneurship Day
【Infernale (1913-1914?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
(A boor of night in middle earth cries out,)
Hola! Hola! What steps are those that break
This curst of air?… (He pauses.) Can breath shake
The solid wax from which the warmth dies out?…
&nb
2024-12-14 National Screwdriver (Classic Cocktail) Day
【Dolls (1913-1914?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The thought of Eve, within me, is a doll
That does what I desire, as, to perplex,
With apple-buds, the husband in her sire.
There's a pious caliph, now,
2024-12-01 National Christmas Lights Day
【Chiaroscuro (1908)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The house-fronts flare
In the blown rain
The ghostly street-lamps
Have a pallid glare,
&
2024-11-29 National Square Dancing Day
【Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks (1923)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
In the moonlight
I met Berserk,
In the moonlight
&
2024-11-25 National Parfait Day
【Testamentum (1909?)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Plant the tea-plant on my grave,
And bury with me funerary cups,
Of which let one be such
That young Persephone will not resist
2024-10-20 National Day on Writing
【The Public Square (1931)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
A slash of angular blacks
Like a fractured edifice
That was buttressed by blue slats
In a coma of the moon.
2024-10-19 National Sweetest Day
【On the Way to the Bus (1954)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
A light snow, like frost, has fallen during the night.
Gloomily, the journalist confronts
Transparent man in a translated world,
In which he feeds on a new known,
&nbs
2024-10-19 National Seafood Bisque Day
【Palace of the Babies (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The disbeliever walked the moonlit place,
Outside of gates of hammered serafin,
Observing the moon-blotches on the walls.
The yellow rocked across the st
2024-10-19 International Gin and Tonic Day
【Colors·II (1909)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Lapis-lazuli and orange, and opaque green,
fawn-color, black and gold…
—— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? ——
【《色彩·之二》(1909)】
异乡人?史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)
【红霞译】
2024-10-19 National New Friends Day
【Colors·I (1909)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Pale orange, green and crimson, and
white, and gold and brown.
—— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? —— ? ——
【《色彩·之一》(1909)】
异乡人?史蒂文斯(1879生—1955卒)
【红霞译】
&nbs
2024-10-18 National Mashed Potato Day
【Six Significant Landscapes·IV (1916)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
When my dream was near the moon,
The white folds of its gown
Filled with yellow light.
The soles of its feet
Grew red.
&
2024-10-10 National Cake Decorating Day
【The Auroras of Autumn·VI (1948)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
It is a theatre floating through the clouds,
Itself a cloud, although of misted rock
And mountains running like water, wave on wave,
Through waves of light. It is of cloud transformed
To cloud transformed again, idly, the way
A season changes color to no end,
Except the lavishing of itself in change,
As light changes yellow into gold and gold
To its opal elements and fire's delight,
&n
2024-09-14 National Coloring Day
【A High-Toned Old Christian Woman (1922)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
Take the moral law and make a nave of it
And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus,
The conscience is converted into palms,
&
2024-09-14 National Cream Filled Donut Day
【Autumn Refrain (1932)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The skreak and skritter of evening gone
And grackles gone and sorrows of the sun,
The sorrows of sun, too, gone... the moon and moon,
The yellow moon of words about the nightingale
In measureless measures, not a bird for me
But the name of a
2024-09-08 National Ampersand Day
【First Warmth (1947)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
I wonder, have I lived a skeleton's life,
As a questioner about reality,
A countryman of all the bones in the world?
Now, here, the warmth I had forgotten becomes
2024-08-13 National Filet Mignon Day
【Immense and Clumsy】
Nancy Anne Miller
Elephant-like, steel grey body,
Immense and clumsy on
Our driveway, the Waterworks
&n
2024-08-09 National Hand Holding Day
【Long Tale】
Nancy Anne Miller
The kiskadee, with a yellow
Waistcoat, is full of himself.
White streaks on his face
&nbs
2024-08-08 National Happiness Happens Day
【Pink Tangle Teezer】
Nancy Anne Miller
Like a rose sun coral, nodules waft a watery aqua sky,
Deep down in the semitropical ocean of her youth.
A pink floral Octocorallia with tentacles swaying
&nbs
2024-08-08 National Pickleball Day
【Coccoloba Uvifera】
Nancy Anne Miller
Like a scrotum full of seed,
The cluster of bay grapes
Hang down on a semitropical
2024-08-08 International Cat Day
【Humpback Whale】
Nancy Anne Miller
You need a hump to
be in tune with a curvy
ocean, to rise like one in
Notre Dame's Cathedral.
&
2024-08-07 National Lighthouse Day
【Moon Jelly】
Nancy Anne Miller
Lacey as doilies for tea cups,
A soft sense of politeness present
When the sea harmonized itself
2024-08-06 International Scuba Day
【Sea Squid】
Nancy Anne Miller
Capped like a nursery bonnet
With tentacles streaming ties.
A missing tooth of the sea,
&nb
2024-06-24 International Fairy Day
【Memories Of Holland (Herinnering aan Holland)】
Hendrik Marsman (1899–1940)
Thinking about Holland,
I see broad rivers
Moving slowly through
Endless lowlands.
&nbs
2024-06-23 Public Service Day
【Song: III】
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)
〖Nobel Prize in Literature 1911〗
They killed three little mads
To see what was in their hearts.
The first was full of happiness,
2024-06-23 National Typewriter Day
【Song: II】
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)
〖Nobel Prize in Literature 1911〗
And if he should come again,
What am I to say?
– Tell him some one looked for him,
2024-06-23 National Porridge Day
【Song: I】
Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)
〖Nobel Prize in Literature 1911〗
She has chained her within a grot,
Upon the gate a sign put she;
The maiden has the light forgot,
The key has fall'n into the sea.
&
2024-06-22 World Rainforest Day
【Sesame and Lilies】
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
For all books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time. Mark this distinction - it is not one of quality only. It is not merely the bad book that does not last, and the good one that does. It is a distinction of species. There are good books for the hour, and good ones for all time; bad books for the hour, and bad ones for all ti
2024-06-21 National Smoothie Day
【My arm clasped your fragile waist
(Mon bras pressait ta taille frêle)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
My arm clasped your fragile waist
that's supple as a reed;
Your breast beat like the wing
Of a young bird!
&nbs
2024-06-21 Wagyu Day
【Chanson】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Si vous n'avez rien à me dire,
Pourquoi venir auprès de moi ?
Pourquoi me faire ce sourire
Qui tournerait la tête au roi ?
Si vous n'avez rien à me dire,
2024-06-21 World Music Day
【The Genesis Of The Butterfly (Vere novo)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
The dawn is smiling on the dew that covers
The tearful roses; lo, the little lovers
That kiss the buds, and all the flutterings
In jasmine bloom, and periwinkle, of white wings,
That go and come, and fly, and peep and hide,
With muffled music, murmured far and w
2024-06-20 National Vanilla Milkshake Day
【January 1st (1er janvier)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Child, you will be told later that the grandfather
adored you; that he did his best on earth,
That he had very little joy and much envy,
That when you were little he was old,
That he had no gruff words or morose airs,
&nbs
2024-06-20 National Ice Cream Soda Day
【I love a little child, and I'm an old fool
(J'aime un petit enfant, et je suis un vieux fou)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Grandfather?
What?
I want to go away.
To go where?
Wherever I want.
Let us leave.
I want to remain, Grandfather.
Let us rem
2024-06-20 World Tapas Day
【Yesterday Evening (Hier Au Soir)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Yesterday, the evening wind, whose breath caresses,
Brought us the scent of flowers that open late;
Night was falling; the bird slept in the thick shadow.
Spring was fragrant, less than your youth;
The stars were shining, less than your gaze.
&
2024-06-19 World Sauntering Day
【The Ocean's Song (Nous nous promenions à Rozel-Tower)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
We walked amongst the ruins famed in story
Of Rozel-Tower,
And saw the boundless waters stretch in glory
And heave in power.
O Ocean vast! We heard thy song with wonder,
Whilst waves marked time.
2024-06-19 National Garfield the Cat Day
【To A Woman (A une femme)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Child! if I were king, I would give the empire,
And my chariot, and my scepter, and my people on their knees
And my crown of gold, and my baths of porphyry,
And my fleets, for which the sea cannot suffice,
For a look of you!
If I were God, the earth and the air with the waves,
Angels, demons bowed before my law,
And the deep cha
2024-06-18 International Picnic Day
【To the Imperious Beauty (A la belle impérieuse)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Love, panic
Of reason,
Communicates
&nb
2024-06-18 Sustainable Gastronomy Day
【To My Daughter Adele (A ma fille Adèle)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
As a child, you slept near me, pink and fresh,
Like a baby Jesus dozing in his manger;
Your pure sleep was so calm and lovely
That you didn't hear the bird sing in the shadows;
&
2024-06-18 National Go Fishing Day
【To Souls Flown Away (A des ?mes envolées)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
These souls that you recall,
My heart, don't come back.
Why then do they persist,
Alas! to stay there?
In t
2024-06-17 National Take Your Cat to Work Day
【More Strong Than Time (Plus fort que le temps)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Since I have set my lips to your full cup, my sweet,
Since I my pallid face between your hands have laid,
Since I have known your soul, and all the bloom of it,
And all the perfume rare, now buried in the shade;
Since it was given to m
2024-06-17 National Stewart's Root Beer Day
【June Nights (Nuits de juin)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
In summer, when the day has fled, the plain covered with flowers
Pours out far away an intoxicating scent;
Eyes shut, ears half open to noises,
We only half sleep in a transparent slumber.
The stars are purer, the shade seems pleasanter;
&n
2024-06-17 National Apple Strudel Day
【Sunset (Les Soleils Couchants)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
The sun set tonight in the clouds.
Tomorrow will come the storm, and the evening, and the night;
Then dawn, and its clarity of obstructed vapors;
Then the nights, then the days, not of time that flees!
All these days will pass; they will pass in crowds
On the face of the seas, on the face of the mountains,
On the silver rivers, on the forests where rolls
Like a confused hymn of the dead that we love.
And
2024-06-17 National Eat Your Vegetables Day
【Tomorrow at Dawn (Demain, dès l'aube)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Tomorrow, at dawn, when the countryside brightens,
I will depart. You see, I know that you wait for me.
I will go through the woods, I will go past the mountains.
I cannot remain far from you any longer.
I will walk, eyes set upon my thoughts,
&nb
2024-06-16 World Refill Day
【Variation (Variación)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
The remanso of air
Under the branch of echo.
The remanso of water
Under a frond of stars.
&n
2024-06-16 National Fudge Day
【Little Song of Seville (Cancioncilla sevillana)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Dawn is awakening
In the orange grove.
The little golden bees
Are looking for honey.
&nbs
2024-06-16 International Day of Family Remittances
【Landscape (Paisaje)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
To Rita, Concha, Pepe and Carmencica
The mistaken afternoon
Dressed in cold.
Behind the windows,
2024-06-16 National Turkey Lovers' Day
【Clock Clear (Claro de reloj)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
I sat
In a clearing of time.
It was a haven
Of silence,
&n
2024-06-15 World Martini Day
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
The moon goes across the water.
How calm the sky is!
It slowly mows down
the old tremor of the river
&nb
2024-06-15 International Surfing Day
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
(Maybe it was because you hadn't mastered Geometry)
The lad was going blank.
It was ten in the morning.
His heart was
2024-06-15 World Juggling Day
【Died at Dawn (Murió Al Amanecer)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Four moon night
And a single tree,
With a single shadow
And a single bird.
2024-06-15 Nature Photography Day
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
The girl with the lovely face,
Goes, gathering olives.
The wind, that towering lover,
Takes her by the waist.
&n
2024-06-14 National Strawberry Shortcake Day
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
To be great, be whole: nothing that's you
Should you exaggerate or exclude.
In each thing, be all. Give all you are
In the least you ever do.
The whole moon, because it ride
2024-06-14 National Cucumber Day
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Of the gardens of Adonis, Lydia, I love
Most of all those fugitive roses
That on the day they are born,
That very day, must also die.
Eternal, for them, the light of day:
&n
2024-06-14 National Bourbon Day
【Odes】
Ricardo Reis, Heteronym of Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Don't try to build in the space you suppose
Is future, Lydia, and don't promise yourself
Tomorrow. Quit hoping and be who you are
Today. You alone are your life.
Don'
2024-06-14 National Cucumber Day
【I Am A Shepherd (Sou um guardador de rebanhos)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
I am a shepherd.
The sheep are my thoughts
And all my thoughts and sensations.
I think with my eyes and ears,
My feet and hands
2024-06-13 National Seersucker Day
【Countless Lives Inhabit Us (Vivem em nós inómeros)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Countless lives inhabit us.
I don't know, when I think or feel,
Who it is that thinks or feels.
&nb
2024-06-13 World Softball Day
【I Know, I Alone (Estar Sozinho)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
I know, I alone
How much it hurts, this heart
2024-06-13 National Weed Your Garden Day
【Every Day Without Joy Was Not Yours (Cada dia sem gozo n?o foi teu)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Every day without joy was not yours
(The day you didn't enjoy wasn't yours):
You just had to stay with it. How much alive
Without enjoying it, you don't live.
&nb
2024-06-13 Saint Anthony Festival
【Like A Mist (Tenho em mim como uma bruma)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
I have in me like a mist
That nothing is or contains
Longing for nothing,
The desire for any good.
I'm wr
2024-06-12 National Loving Day
【Portuguese Sea (Mar Português)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Oh salty sea, how much of your salt
Are tears of Portugal!
To get across you, how many mothers cried,
How many sons prayed in vain!
How many brides were never t
2024-06-11 National Corn on the Cob Day
【Crown Me with Roses (Coróname de rosas)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
Crown me with roses,
Crown me really
With roses -
Roses that burn out
2024-06-11 International Yarn Bombing Day
【Autopsychography (Autopsicographia)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
— Edwin Honig (Translator)
The poet is a faker. He
Fakes it so completely,
He even fakes he's suffering
&nbs
2024-06-11 National Making Life Beautiful Day
【When I did not have you (Quando eu n?o te tinha)】
Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)
When I did not have you
I loved Nature like a recluse as calm as Christ…
Now I love nature
Like a monk as calm as the Virgin Mary,
Religiously, in my own way, as before,
But in a different way by approaching life more.
2024-06-10 National Black Cow Day
【Silly Song (Canción tonta)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Mama,
I want to be made of silver.
Son,
&nbs
2024-06-10 National Herbs and Spices Day
【Guitar (La Guitarra)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
The weeping of the guitar
begins.
The goblets of dawn
are smashed.
&n
2024-06-09 National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day
【Desire (Deseo)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Only your hot heart,
and nothing more.
My Garden of Eden, a spot
&nb
2024-06-09 National Earl Day
【The Little Mute Boy (El ni?o mudo)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
The little boy looks for his voice.
(The king of the crickets had it.)
In a drop of water
the little boy was looking for his voice.
&
2024-06-09 National Donald Duck Day
【Before The Dawn (Murió Al Amanecer)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
But like love
the archers
are blind.
&n
2024-06-09 National Meal Prep Day
【Malagan (Malague?a)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Death
enters, and leaves,
the tavern.
Bl
2024-06-09 National Children's Day
【Every Song (Cada canción)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Every song
is the remains
of love.
&nb
2024-06-08 Best Friends Day
【Conch (Concha)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
To Natalia Jiménez
Somebody has given me a conch.
Inside, a sea map is singing.
My heart
fills with water
2024-06-08 World Oceans Day
【The Interrupted Concert (El concierto interrumpido)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
The cold and somnolent pause-mark
Of the crescent moon
Has broken the harmony
Of the deep night.
&n
2024-06-07 National Donut Day
【In Vain I Migrate】
Abdellatif La?bi (1942-Now)
I migrate in vain
In every city I drink the same coffee
and resign myself to the waiter's impassive face
The laughter of nearby tables
disturbs the evening's music
2024-06-06 National Yo-Yo Day
【My Mother's Language】
Abdellatif La?bi (1942-Now)
It's been twenty years since I last saw my mother
She starved herself to death
They say that each morning
she would pull her headscarf off
and strike the floor seven times
cursing the heavens and the Tyrant
&n
2024-06-06 National Fish & Chips Day
【Dish Of The Day】
Abdellatif La?bi (1942-Now)
For today's special
we'd like to recommend a very spicy
'killer' stew
The innkeeper
&n
2024-06-06 National Eyewear Day
【Fingerprints】
Abdellatif La?bi (1942-Now)
If we could write
simply by placing
fingerprints
&n
2024-06-06 D-Day for Normandy Landings
【I'm a child of this dreary century】
Abdellatif La?bi (1942-Now)
I'm a child of this dreary century
a child who never grew up
Doubts that set my tongue on fire
burned my w
2024-06-05 Global Running Day
【Sleepwalking Romance (Romance Sonámbulo)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Green, how I want you green.
Green wind. Green branches.
The ship out on the sea
and the horse on th
2024-08-05 National Start Over Day
【The Crazy Boy (El ni?o loco)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
I said: "Late"
But it wasn't like that.
The afternoon was something else
that had already gone away.
(And the light shrugged
&nb
2024-06-05 National Attitude Day
【Schematic Nocturne (Nocturno esquemático)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
The fennel, a serpent, and rushes.
Aroma, a sign, and penumbra.
Air, earth, and solitariness.
&n
2024-06-05 World Environment Day
【Song of the Rider (Canción de jinete)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Córdoba.
Distant and isolated.
Black nag, large moon,
&nb
2024-06-05 Festival of Popular Delusions Day
【Absent Soul (Alma ausente)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Neither the bull nor the fig tree knows you,
Neither the horses nor the ants in your house,
Neither the baby knows you nor the afternoon,
Because you have died forever.
Neither the back of the stone knows you
Nor the black
2024-06-04 National Cognac Day
【Dawn (La aurora)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
Dawn in New York has
Four columns of mire
And a hurricane of black pigeons
Splashing in the putrid waters.
Dawn in New York groans
On enormous fire escapes
2024-06-03 National Leave the Office Early Day
【Hunter (Cazador)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
A tall pine forest!
Above it, four doves flying.
Four doves
2024-06-03 Love Conquers All Day
【Farewell (Despedida)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
If I die,
leave the balcony open.
The little boy is eating oranges.
&n
2024-06-03 National "Thank God It's Monday" Day
【Ditty of First Desire (Cancioncilla del primer deseo)】
Frederico García Lorca (1898-1936)
In delicated green morning,
I will be a heart.
A heart.
2024-06-02 National Bubba Day
【The Grave and The Rose (La tombe dit à la rose)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
The grave said to the rose:
"With the tears that dawn sprinkles upon you
What do you make, flower of love?"
The rose said to the tomb:
"What do you make of
2024-06-02 National Rocky Road Day
【If My Verses Had The Wings (Si mes vers avaient des ailes)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Songs as sweet as summer brings,
To your flowery lawn should fly
If my verses had the wings—
&nb
2024-06-02 National Rotisserie Chicken Day
【The Poor Children (Les enfants pauvres)】
Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
Take heed of this small child of earth;
He is great; he hath in him God most high.
Children before their fleshly birth
Are lights alive in the blue sky.
&nbs
2024-06-01 Don't Give Up The Ship Day
【Ticket Thrown Away Before Not Leaving (Biglietto lasciato prima di non andar via)】
Giorgio Caproni (1912—1990)
If I don't come home,
I want you to know that I never
left.
2024-05-31 National Smile Day
【The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man (1923)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
One's grand flights, one's Sunday baths,
One's tootings at the weddings of the soul
Occur as they occur. So bluish clouds
Occurred above the empty house and the leaves
2024-05-24 International Tiara Day
【Arrival at the Waldorf (1942)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Home from Guatemala, back at the Waldorf.
This arrival in the wild country of the soul,
All approaches gone, being completely there,
Where the wild poem is a substitute
For the woman one loves or ought to love,
&
2024-05-12 Mother's Day
【Earthy Anecdote (1918)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Every time the bucks went clattering
Over Oklahoma
A firecat bristled in the way.
Wherever they went,
They went clattering,
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2024-05-04 World Give Day
【Stars at Tallapoosa (1922)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The lines are straight and swift between the stars.
The night is not the cradle that they cry,
The criers, undulating the deep-oceaned phrase.
The lines are much too dark and much too sharp.
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2024-05-04 National Bird Day
【Invective Against Swans (1923)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks
And far beyond the discords of the wind.
A bronze rain from the sun descending marks
The death of summer, which that
2024-05-04 Kentucky Derby
【The Plot Against the Giant - Third Girl (1917)】
Wallace Stevens (1879—1955)
Oh, la…le pauvre!
I shall run before him,
With a curious puffing.
He will bend his ear then.
I shall whisper
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