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Swan Sunlight flashed upon And magnified the swan. Sunlight to it lent Unearthly elementAn incandescent white, As of some mystic light. Then, out of ages gone, I saw the brilliant swan Tow a...
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February 14, 1936 The Commonweal 431 defensive tactics do not serve. That no student If there is any valid reason whatever for...
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November 2, I934 The Commonwed I5 .throngs of the half-baked were ogled into listenlng, he found the stench of Russian tyranny pleasant to his nostrils, talked flapdoodle about a world he was...
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4O2 The King (After Lao Tse) Receiving tribute from each lavish giver, The ocean keeps each mountain-stream in thrall: The ocean lords it over every river, Because it holds itself below them...
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Only in fetters, Is liberty: Without its banks, Could a river...
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splendid Doom Whatever subtle power it is That links each stone and tree, Its secret correspondences Man feels but cannot see. Dark hills and streams and waterfalls Evoke a presence near— A...
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250 THE COMMONWEAL July 3, 1929 This proposal, of course, was somewhat broader than the suggestion of "an organized, searching in- vestigation of fact and causes" for the purpose of "correcting"...
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366 THE COMMONWEAL January 30, 1929 ing increased earnings and profits, but very significant that the tendency...
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719 POEMS Lark- Wise When I behold how men go down to death Like moon-thralled Keats, with half their work undone; I fear the fleet-foot hour, the hasting sun That wastes the rose he opens...
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January 26, I927 THE COMMONWEAL 325 POEMS ~ursum Gorda Perhaps they do grow old and die-- Swallow, and bee, and butterfly. Yet when next summer comes, lo there The same wild acrobats of...
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Swan
(October 1963)
