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Edwin Arlington Robinson - VerlaineEdwin Arlington Robinson - Verlaine
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Why do you dig like long-clawed scavengers   To touch the covered corpse of him that fled   The uplands for the fens, and rioted   Like a sick satyr with doom’s worshippers?   Come! let the grass grow there; and leave his verse To tell the story of the life he led.   Let the man go: let the dead flesh be dead,   And let the worms be its biographers.     Song sloughs away the sin to find redress   In art’s complete remembrance: nothing clings For long but laurel to the stricken brow   That felt the Muse’s finger; nothing less   Than hell’s fulfilment of the end of things   Can blot the star that shines on Paris now.
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