“now the ears of my ears awake and
now the eyes of my eyes are opened”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
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XAIPE (1950)
“Observation — activity of both eyes and ears.”
As quoted in Every Other Sunday Vol. 23 (1907) by The Unitarian Sunday-School Society, p. 19
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