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Run.
People are coming. They must not catch us here
Definitionless in this strict atmosphere.
Yet oh! the tempting flatness of a book,
To send it sailing out the attic window
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They learned to rattle the lock and key
To give whatever might chance to be,
Warning and time to be off in flight:
This wide flight we wave
At the stars or moon
Means that we approve
Of them on the move.
God of the machine,
Peregrine machine,
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Since ever they flung abroad in spring
The leaves had promised themselves this flight,
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the absolute flight and rest
The universal blue
And local green suggest.
To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.
I have need of night people.
I have need to see the bum dozing
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The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks
And far beyond the discords of the wind.
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