Vaughan Williams

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“O Joys! infinite sweetness! with what flowers
And shoots of glory my soul breaks and buds!”
—Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)

“the whole sea become an entanglement of watery bodies
lost to the world bearing what they cannot hold. Broken,

beaten, desolate, reaching from the dead to be taken up
they cry out, failing, failing! their cries rising
in waves still as the skillful yachts pass over.”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)