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Tiresias

By Thomas Woolner

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When preening downy breasts the waterfowl
Quiver, ere spreading timorous wings to rise
From water freshened with the breath of morn,
And span the dazzled distance into space;
So freshly wing our lives Tiresias,
So bright with promise are the days to come.”