Metaphors Of A Magnifico
- Twenty men crossing a bridge,
- Into a village,
- Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges,
- Into twenty villages,
- Or one man
- Crossing a single bridge into a village.
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- This is old song
- That will not declare itself...
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- Twenty men crossing a bridge,
- Into a village,
- Are
- Twenty men crossing a bridge
- Into a village.
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- That will not declare itself
- Yet is certain as meaning...
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- The boots of the men clump
- On the boards of the bridge.
- The first white wall of the village
- Rises through fruit-trees.
- Of what was it I was thinking?
- So the meaning escapes.
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- The first white wall of the village...
- The fruit-trees...
From Harmonium, 1923.
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