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As once the winged energy of delight
carried you over childhood's dark abysses,
now beyond your own life build the great
arch of unimagined ...

The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,
as if orchards were dying high in space.
Each leaf falls as if it were motioning ...

The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not ...