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Blackberries
by William Allingham
Allingham, William (1824-1889)
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[Earth's night is where she rolls]
[By and by, we shall meet]
[Here they are: how little they are!]
[Pleasure, torture, victory, crime,—]
[“Weary your life was, day by day]
[How swift the days do pass!]
[Hast ever chanced to stare aghast]
[Dull and dumb]
[Perception, Will, Personality]
[Why ever asking “why?” you cry; and I]
[Needs and greeds and ties and lies]
[Out of the land of dreams and youth, alas!]
[Lost chance—never again]
[Soon life ends]
[Who will sorrow when I die?]
[Do what wilt with me]
[“I'm learning, every day.”]
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Blackberries
[Suppose we tried the simple plan, to say]
Suppose
we tried the simple plan, to say
No lies at all, for just one single day.
Would houses crumble into heaps of sand,
Fields wither, sky fall, ocean whelm the land?
Blackberries