Adam Hurst Sparrow
On elegy As The Sparrow To give life you must take life, and as our grief falls flat and hollow upon the billionblooded sea I pass upon serious inwardbreaking shoals rimmed with whitelegged, whitebellied rotting creatures lengthily dead and rioting against surrounding scenes. Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage br, br,
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