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1884–1921

BIRTHDAY PIECE NO. 2

Donald Evans

There is what is and what there is is fair, But most is yet to come to what is here; Here is the most to come from out a year, For from the year there comes all there is there.

Song for the minnow and a crystal pool, And all is said of all there was to say, Yet all must say the all, since every day A nuptial kiss the wise man gives a fool.

An ear of corn from the blind red sunburnt earth Blandly lies in the sun divinely green, Disowning what the earth and sun have done. Kisses and corn and a pool to crown the birth,

With once to come what never before has been, And here is there what there is here begun.

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