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    Though trees turn bare and girls turn wives,
    We shall afford our costly seasons;
    There is a gentleness survives
    That will outspeak and has its reasons.
    There is a loveliness exists,
    Preserves us, not for specialists.
    —William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)

    I taught myself to name my name,
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    —William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)

    in darkness and in hedges
    I sang my sour tone
    and all my love was howling
    conspicuously alone.
    —William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)