Vaughan Williams

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    “Yet some, who all this while did weep and sing,
    And sing and weep, soared up into the ring;
    But most would use no wing.
    O fools, said I, thus to prefer dark night
    Before true light!”
    —Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)

    “We are only mortal
    but being mortal
    can defy our fate.
    We may
    by an outside chance
    even win!”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)