36 The Commonweal November 5, 1937 what went by the name of standard English. What a hotch-potch this list is, all in popular speech, and mostly used with a peculiar sardonic twist: "connoisseur,"...
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579 Time Is a Thief Time is a thief, eluding every hand, Bearing our names into oblivion, Snatching with skilful ease what we have planned To pass beyond our lease of soil and sun. Beside his...
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Death of an Unimportant Man The man is dead, And that is all. A prayer is said, A rose let fall. Quietly, calmly, As he came, Unannounced, Without a name, His undistinguished Spirit...
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Fire Somewhere, in darkened timbers, stirred A frond of flame, unseen, unheard, Curling a finger here and there, Probing a way to light and air, Seeking to grant a strange desire Imprisoned in...
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The Friendship of the Old There is no friendship such as old men know Old men who sit and talk of things gone by As wintry leaves recall the summer sky, Brooding beneath the silence of the...
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:zo4 THE COMMONWEAL June 2:z, I93:z Senate committees could easily have been determined in the early days of the session. Of the thousands of bills introduced, only a small fraction require...
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Transient The weary trip is done. Across the bright Tangle of tracks the engine stirs its bell, Leaving me captive for a lonely night In the hushed dimness of this strange hotel. I cannot...
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The youthful years, like revelers long gone, Grow faint upon the senses. Now they know The recompense that comes when young hearts go: The gift of silence on a sun-flecked lawn. They spend an...
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