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the bigness of cannon | |
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is skilful, | |
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but i have seen | |
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death's clever enormous voice | |
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which hides in a fragility |
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of poppies . . . . | |
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i say that sometimes | |
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on these long talkative animals | |
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are laid fists of huger silence | |
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I have seen all the silence |
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filled with vivid noiseless boys | |
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at Roupy | |
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i have seen | |
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between barrages, | |
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the night utter ripe unspeaking girls. |
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