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STRAY BIRDS

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"In the moon thou sendest thy love letters to me," said the night to the sun. "I leave my answers in tears upon the grass."

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The Great is a born child ; when he dies he gives his great childhood to the world.

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Not hammer strokes, but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.

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