Humbert Wolfe (1885-1940) wrote:
… knowing as the pine trees know
that somewhere in the urgent sap there is
an everlasting answer to the snow
and a retort to the last precipice,
that, merely by climbing, the shadow is made less,
that we have some engagement with a star
only to be honoured with deaths bitterness…
He is also author of
You cannot hope
to bribe or twist
thank God! the
British journalist
But, seeing what
the man will do
unbribed, theres
no occasion to
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