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FURTHER READING
Poems by Anonymous
Adam Lay Ibounden
Eadwacer
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Hymn to Dionysos
Lord Randall
Old English riddle
The Creation of the Moon
The Cruel Mother
The Lady That Loved a Swine
The maidens came
The Unquiet Grave
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the earth is a living thing
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by Anonymous
read by Galway Kinnell

Earth took of earth earth with ill;
Earth other earth gave earth with a will.
Earth laid earth in the earth stock-still:
Then earth in earth had of earth its fill.



Erthe Toc of Erthe

Erthe toc of erthe erthe wyth woh,
erthe other erthe to the earthe droh,
erthe leyde erthe in erthene throh,
tho hevede erthe of erthe erthe ynoh.








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March 13, 1997
The New School
New York, NY
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