And you are here beside me, small, Contained and fragile, and intent On things that I but half recall - Yet going whither you are bent. I am the past, and that is all. (Yvor Winters)

And you are here beside me, small, Contained and fragile, and intent On things that I but half recall - Yet going whither you are bent. I am the past, and that is all.

Yvor Winters

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