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Five Poems

By E. E. Cummings

I

into the strenuous briefnessLife:handorgans and Aprildarkness, friends
i charge laughing.Into the hair-thin tintsof yellow dawn,into the women-coloured twilight
i smilinglyglide. Iinto the big vermilion departureswim, sayingly;
(Do you think?) thei do, worldis probably madeof roses & hello:
(of solongs and, ashes)