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Unread 03-09-2021, 09:57 AM
Aaron Novick Aaron Novick is offline
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Originally Posted by Tim McGrath View Post
Let's get metaphysical:

Great streets of silence led away
To neighborhoods of pause;
Here was no notice, no dissent,
No universe, no laws.

There is no better quatrain in the language. There are many as good but none better.
Interesting poem! But I think the author of this plagiarized Emily Dickinson. Compare to this great poem of hers:
Great Streets of silence led away
To Neighborhoods of Pause –
Here was no Notice – no Dissent
No Universe – no Laws –

By Clocks, 'twas Morning, and for Night
The Bells at Distance called –
But Epoch had no basis here
For Period exhaled.
Afraid to say I think Dickinson's is far superior!
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