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Sadness and Happiness Author: Robert Pinsky

ISBN: 9780691013220 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 88 Published: 16 November 1975 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 21.6 x 14.0 x 0.64 Description:

From Sadness and Happiness: Poems by Robert Pinsky: CEREMONY FOR ANY BEGINNING

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Against weather, and the random Harpies--mood, circumstance, the laws Of biography, chance, physics-- The unseasonable soul holds forth, Eager for form as a renowned Pedant, the emperor's man of worth, Hereditary arbiter of manners.

Soul, one's life is one's enemy. As the small children learn, what happens Takes over, and what you were goes away. They learn it in sardonic soft Comments of the weather, when it sharpens The hard surfaces of daylight: light Winds, vague in direction, like blades

Lavishing their brilliant strokes All over a wrecked house, The nude wallpaper and the brute Intelligence of the torn pipes. Therefore when you marry or build Pray to be untrue to the plain Dominance of your own weather,...

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