“the cunning the craven
… they live for until
though the sun in his heaven
says Now”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
29
73 poems (1963)
“Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit,
His waxen wings did mount above his reach,
And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.”
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