stitution that symbolized the failure of the planners of the past, and the probable failure of the planners of the future. But ironies multiply when or~e notices that he was also speaking at a...
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SR. ELLEN MURPHY BEAUTY-A CHARACTER SKETCH Beauty is well-bred and asks nothing but that the other be delighted and at ease, freely left to wonder before a living ocean, flights of river-spanning...
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SR. ELLEN MURPHY POEM OF WINDLESS SHOW FOR MEL, THE GARDENER Three windless days and nights of falling flakes cast snow bells over the mountain-ash berries, lily-cups over the red-orange...
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SR. ELLEN MURPHY
Fireflies:
A Poem for William of Ghana
How, in the Fanti tongue
are the fireflies named?
When I described them in my letter
you replied
as directly as in a...
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THE FIRST THAW Snow ascends invisibly. Mild air releases from hard white stars moist shimmering atmosphere. The sun warmly drawing its bright breath. Ascensions everywhere begin with death; have...
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