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I saw with open eyes, Singing birds sweet, Sold in the shops, For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of, Stupidity Street.

— Ralph Hodgson Poems (1917)

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God loves an idle rainbow,
No less than laboring seas.

Time, you old gipsy man,
Will you not stay,
Put up your caravan
Just for one day?

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God loves an idle rainbow, Not less than labouring seas.

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Reason has moons, but moons not hers
Lie mirror'd on her sea,
Confounding her astronomers,
But, O! delighting me.

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The morning that my baby came
They found a baby swallow dead,
And saw a something hard to name
Fly mothlike over baby's bed.

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