Witter Bynner Poems

Among the automobiles and in a region
Now Democratic, now Republican,
With a department-store, a branch of the Legion,
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I Come and go
And never stay.
I pick and choose
A night, a day,
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In Kamakura, near the great Daibutsu,
When I had sat a long time on the ground
And been gathered up, forgetful of my face and form,
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Well, I was in the old Second Maine,
The first regiment in Washington from the Pine Tree State.
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Fiercely I remove from you
All the little vestiges-
Garments that confine you,
Things that touch the flesh,
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Cease from the asking,
you receive the answer.
God is not God, life life
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Clouds dream and disappear;
Waters dream in a rainbow and are gone;
Fire-dreams change with the sun
Or when a poppy closes;
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As if you were an archer
with your swift hand at the bow,
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Whether the time be slow or fast,
   Enemies, hand in hand,
Must come together at the last
   And understand.
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By seven vineyards on one hill
   We walked. The native wine
In clusters grew beside us two,
   For your lips and for mine,
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