“milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone

for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea”

— E.E. Cummings

"maggie and milly and molly and may" in Complete Poems: 1904-1962

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American poet 1894–1962

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