Post Impression

III

by E.E. Cummings

into the strenuous briefness

Life:

handorgans and April

darkness, friends

5  

i charge laughing.

Into the hair-thin tints

of yellow dawn,

into the women-coloured twilight

i smilingly

10  

glide.    I

into the big vermillion departure

swim, sayingly;

(Do you think? ) the

i do, world

15  

is probably made

of roses & hello:

(of solongs and, ashes)








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Transcribed and formatted for Internet reading, with addition of line numbers, from the 1923 (Thomas Seltzer, Inc.) hardcover edition of Tulips and Chimneys by E.E. Cummings.