"Corky's First Elegy"
CORKY'S FIRST ELEGY
"He is somewhere down
amid the withered
sedge and alder bushes there
by the water’s edge, but where?
From that quarter his shrill blast
sounded, but he is silent, and
a kingdom will not buy it again."
c/s Lorna Dee Cervantes: 13-Apr-2005
fromThe Journal of Henry David Thoreau: 9-Apr-1856
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"He is somewhere down
amid the withered
sedge and alder bushes there
by the water’s edge, but where?
From that quarter his shrill blast
sounded, but he is silent, and
a kingdom will not buy it again."
c/s Lorna Dee Cervantes: 13-Apr-2005
from
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posted by Lorna Dee Cervantes at 9:15 PM
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