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  1. Forgetfulness is like a song
    That, freed from beat and measure, wanders.
    Forgetfulness is like a bird whose wings are reconciled,
    Outspread and motionless,--
    A bird that coasts the wind unwearyingly.

    Forgetfulness is rain at night,
    Or an old house in a forest,-- or a child.
    Forgetfulness is white,-- white as a blasted tree,
    And it may stun the sybil into prophecy,
    Or bury the Gods.

    I can remember much forgetfulness.

    -- Hart Crane, "Forgetfulness" (1918)

  2. Forgetfulness is like a song
    That, freed from beat and measure, wanders.
    Forgetfulness is like a bird whose wings are reconciled,
    Outspread and motionless,--
    A bird that coasts the wind unwearyingly.

    Forgetfulness is rain at night,
    Or an old house in a forest,-- or a child.
    Forgetfulness is white,-- white as a blasted tree,
    And it may stun the sybil into prophecy,
    Or bury the Gods.

    I can remember much forgetfulness.

    -- Hart Crane, "Forgetfulness" (1918)

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