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For All The Grief

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For all the grief I have given with words     May now a few clear flowers blow, In the dust, and the heat, and the silence of birds,          Where the lonely go. For the thing unsaid that heart asked of me     Be a dark, cool water calling - calling To the footsore, benighted, solitary,          When the shadows are falling. O, be beauty for all my blindness,     A moon in the air where the weary wend, And dews burdened with loving-kindness          In the dark of the end.

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"For all the grief I have given with words..."

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