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To wish Myself Courage by William Carlos Williams

June 16, 2010 by Every Writer

William Carlos Williams (1883?1963)

To wish Myself Courage

On the day when youth is no more upon me
I will write of the leaves and the moon in a tree top!
I will sing then the song, long in the making?
When the stress of youth is put away from me.
How can I ever be written out as men say?
Surely it is merely an interference with the long song?
This that I am now doing.
But when the spring of it is worn like the old moon
And the eaten leaves are lace upon the cold earth?
Then I will rise up in my great desire?
Long at the birth?and sing me the youth-song!

Filed Under: 1900s

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