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Love Song

by William Carlos Williams

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I lie here thinking of you:⁠—

the stain of love is upon the world! Yellow, yellow, yellow it eats into the leaves, smears with saffron the horned branches that lean heavily against a smooth purple sky! There is no light only a honey-thick stain that drips from leaf to leaf and limb to limb spoiling the colors of the whole world⁠—

you far off there under the wine-red selvage of the west!

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