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)

    “the sea is circled and sways
    peacefully upon its plantlike stem”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)