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"The Little Bafflings."

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"I have the classic
reticence of those

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who never write the rude truth.

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Even these lines were made by
the pressure of a mere pin.

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So I am often anxious,
even suicidal that I am not

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enough downcast.

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Oh, little pins,
you make of my body

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an effigy of the unseen
rain that can dent a stone.

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And you rude one,
what secret happiness

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are you hoarding under
the pillow where you weep?

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Did you see the spring duck
raise his head from under

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the ice wearing an
emerald necklace?"

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