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The Winter Soldier: The Pool.

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Out of that noise and hurry of large life             The river flings me in an idle pool:         The waters still go on with stir and strife             And sunlit eddies, and the beautiful         Tall trees lean down upon the mighty flow,             Reflected in that movement.    Beauty there         Waxes more beautiful, the moments grow             Thicker and keener in that lovely air         Above the river.    Here small sticks and straws             Come now to harbour, gather, lie and rot,         Out of cross-currents and the water's flaws             In this unmoving death, where joy is not,         Where war's a shade again, ambition rotten         And bitter hopes and fears alike forgotten.

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