Richard Wilbur Quotes

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The First Thing I Saw In The Morning
Was A Huge Golden Bee Ploughing
His Burly Right Shoulder Into The Belly
Of A Sleek Yellow Pear
Low On A Bough.
Before He Could Find That Sudden Black Honey
That Squirms Around In There
Inside The Seed, The Tree Could Not Bear Any More.
The Pear Fell To The Ground,
With The Bee Still Half Alive
Inside Its Body.
He Would Have Died Had I Not Knelt Down
And Sliced The Pear Gently
A Little More Open.
The Bee Shuddered, And Returned.
Maybe I Should Have Left Him A Lone There
Drowning In His Own Delight.
The Best Days Are The First
To Flee.

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