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FOUR SONNETS: 1, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We have been diligent too many years
Last Line: Unconscious of the loss you have sustained.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayasi Shuseki
Subject(s): Reason; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


We have been diligent too many years
In our respective orbits to encroach
Your mind upon my mind, or to approach
My thoughts unto your thoughts, and there appears
Small reason that I should exchange my dram
Of bottomless beauty that is never dry
For your material potion, or that I
Should wish me other than the thing I am.

But you are granted this: that you are blind
To your own beauty; and when I shall see
Your singing body broken and confined,
And know thereat much sorrow, you will be,
Like a dead tree on which all skies have rained,
Unconscious of the loss you have sustained.





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