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staunch | Poem

 
 


 
Staunch in the House of Time


     Honor is to those
     Who pause to see
     The dweller within; it is
     A fitting of substance
     Cast in shadow to
     The substantiality of
     Illuminance. 

     In the days when the wind nods,
     The eyes are clearest.
 

- David Mitchell

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