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LIFE-SONG by JOHN BANISTER TABB

First Line: BREATHE IT MUST FOR ECSTASY
Last Line: ONE WITH FULL-BLOWN MEMORY.

Breathe it must for ecstasy,
Or a stifled blossom die:
Aching silence overgrown
Brings to birth the living tone
Sap-like, evermore to be
One with full-blown memory.



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