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Francis,
Robert
Robert Francis was an American poet who lived most of his life in Amherst, Massachusetts.. American poet
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Waxwings
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Written by:
Robert
Francis
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Four Tao philosophers as cedar waxwings
chat on a February berry bush
in sun, and I am one.
Such merriment and such sobriety--
the small wild fruit on the tall stalk--
was this not always my true style?
Above an elegance of snow, beneath
a silk-blue sky a brotherhood of four
birds. Can you mistake us?
To sun, to feast, and to converse
and all together--for this I have abandoned
all my other lives.
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