a wind has blown the rain away and blown | |
the sky away and all the leaves away, | |
and the trees stand. I think i too have known | |
autumn too long | |
5 |
(and what have you to say, |
wind wind wind—did you love somebody | |
and have you the petal of somewhere in your heart | |
pinched from dumb summer? | |
O crazy daddy | |
10 |
of death dance cruelly for us and start |
the last leaf whirling in the final brain | |
of air!)Let us as we have seen see | |
doom's integration . . . . . . . . . a wind has blown the rain | |
away and the leaves and the sky and the | |
trees stand: | |
the trees stand. The trees, | |
suddenly wait against the moon's face. |
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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.