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This is called "A Biography."

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Poetry cripples.

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Tempest fugit.

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Have removed from
the literary wars

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the hand of a gentleman in
quill, the blackberry ink mixed

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with tears, who sought
the ingratitude of his day

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as a sculptor clay or
an alchemist brass.

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Poet or poem, life or art,
he cared for his judgments

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in their prisons.

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He likened himself to a convict.

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He lifted his vision
to the window.

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He dug for the
treasures of light.

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He entered the solitary's tunnel.

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Women he loved he surrendered.

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As leaf falls for
the love of leaf,

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felons he insulted
and readers perverted.

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In the cave of the
senseless, it all fit.

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The thin shafts the
stars shown down

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could not lighten his
life at hard labor.

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