Poem: “La Guerre II” by Edward Estlin Cummings

Tulips and Chimneys – 1923

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O sweet spontaneous
earth how often have
the
doting

fingers of
prurient philosophers pinched
and
poked

thee
, has the naughty thumb
of science prodded
thy

beauty. how
often have religions taken
thee upon their scraggy knees
squeezing and.

buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive
gods
(but
true
to the incomparable
couch of death thy
rhythmic
lover

thou answerest

them only with

spring)

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