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Against Botticelli – Poetry @ Princeton

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Against Botticelli by Robert Hass 1 In the life we lead together every paradise is lost. Nothing could be easier: summer gathers new leaves to casual darkness. So few things we need to know. And th…

Against Botticelli by Robert Hass 1 In the life we lead together every paradise is lost. Nothing could be easier: summer gathers new leaves to casual darkness. So few things we need to know. And the old wisdoms shudder in us and grow slack. Like renunciation. Like the melancholy beauty of giving it all up. Like walking steadfast in the rhythms, winter light and summer dark. And the time for cutting furrows and the dance. Mad seed. Death waits it out. It waits us out, the sleek incandescent saints, earthly and prayerful. In our modesty. In our shamefast and steady attention to the ceremony, its

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