Poem by Edward Estlin Cummings

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dying is fine)but Death
 
?o
baby
i
 
wouldn't like
 
Death if Death
were
good:for
 
when(instead of stopping to think)you
 
begin to feel of it,dying
's miraculous
why?be
 
cause dying is
 
perfectly natural;perfectly
putting
it mildly lively(but
 
Death
 
is strictly
scientific
& artificial &
 
evil & legal)
 
we thank thee
god
almighty for dying
(forgive us,o life!the sin of Death

1. if learned darkness from our searched world
2. O Thou to whom the musical white spring
3. when unto nights of autumn do complain
4. this is the garden:colours come and go
5. come nothing to my comparable soul

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