Speaking In Tongues

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[1894-1962]

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chanson innocente
the rose is dying
chanson innocente



chanson innocente

in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it's
spring
when the world is puddle-wonderful
the queer old
balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisabel come dancing
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
it's
spring
and
the
goat-footed
bafloonMan whistles
far
and
wee

chanson innocente

the rose is dying

the rose
is dying the
lips of an old man murder
the petals
hush
mysteriously invisible mourners move
with prose faces and sobbing, garments
The symbol of the rose
motionless
with grieving feet and
wings
mounts
against the margins of steep song
a stallion swetneess , the
lips of an old man murder
the petals.

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