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To The Others

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I see you, refulgent ones,     Burning so steadily     Like big white arc lights...     There are so many of you.     I like to watch you weaving -     Altogether and with precision     Each his ray -     Your tracery of light,     Making a shining way about America.     I note your infinite reactions -     In glassware     And sequin     And puddles     And bits of jet -     And here and there a diamond...     But you do not yet see me,     Who am a torch blown along the wind,     Flickering to a spark     But never out.

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