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Quotation by Wallace Stevens
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These are the small townsmen of death,
A man and a woman, like two leaves
That keep clinging to a tree,
Before winter freezes and grows black....
A man and a woman, like two leaves
That keep clinging to a tree,
Before winter freezes and grows black....
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), U.S. poet. "Burghers of Petty Death."
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