No child should ever be too sad to play.
Sing of disappointments more repeated than the batter of the sea, of lives embittered by resentments so ubiquitous the ocean__ salt seems thinly shaken, of letdowns local as the sofa where I copped my freshman__ feel, of failures as frequent as first love, first nights, last stands; do not warble of arms or adventurous deeds or shepherds playing on their private fifes, or of civil war or monarchies at swords; consider rather the slightly squinkered clerk, the soul which has become as shabby and soiled in its seat as worn-out underwear, a life lit like a lonely room and run like a laddered stocking.
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Sing of disappointments more repeated than the batter of the sea, of lives embittered by resentments so ubiquitous the ocean__ salt seems thinly shaken, of letdowns local as the sofa where I copped my freshman__ feel, of failures as frequent as first love, first nights, last stands; do not warble of arms or adventurous deeds or shepherds playing on their private fifes, or of civil war or monarchies at swords; consider rather the slightly squinkered clerk, the soul which has become as shabby and soiled in its seat as worn-out underwear, a life lit like a lonely room and run like a laddered stocking.
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