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I will lie down lean  With my thirst and my hunger

May 29, 2020 ~ Walter Shandy ~ Leave a comment

Feast by Edna St. Vincent Millay

I drank at every vine.
The last was like the first.
I came upon no wine
So wonderful as thirst.

I gnawed at every root.
I ate of every plant.
I came upon no fruit
So wonderful as want.

Feed the grape and bean
To the vintner and monger:
I will lie down lean
With my thirst and my hunger

“It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random curiosities he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane” – prologue to Moby Dick

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