For Once, Then, Something Flashcards
1
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Others taunt me with having knelt at well-curbs
Always wrong to the light, so never seeing
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2
Q
Deeper down in the well than where the water
Gives me back in a shining surface picture
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3
Q
Me myself in the summer heaven, godlike,
Looking out of a wreath of fern and cloud puffs.
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4
Q
Once, when trying with chin against a well-curb,
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5
Q
I discerned, as I thought, beyond the picture,
Through the picture, a something white, uncertain,
Some more of the depths - and then I lost it.
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6
Q
Water came to rebuke the too clear water.
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7
Q
One drop fell from a fern, and lo, a ripple
Shook whatever it was lay there at bottom,
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8
Q
Blurred it, blotted it out. What was that whiteness?
Truth? A pebble of quartz? For once, then, something.
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