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Let others claim a higher love:
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But love me for love’s sake, that evermore
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The rock lives in the desert, solid, taking its time.
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wide from the slowly smoldering fire
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And where the sky’s a pale blue cup
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I want to stay in that music without striving or cover.
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Like fossils locked deep in the folds of my brain,
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My circus animals were all on show,
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It is with words as it is with people: Actual beauty is rare.
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I taught myself to live simply and wisely,