About suffering they were never _____,
The Old _____ : how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes _____
While someone else is eating or opening a _____ or just
walking _____ along;
How, when the aged are reverently, passionately _____
For the _____ birth, there always must be
_____ who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the _____ of the wood:
They _____ forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its _____
Anyhow in a corner, some _____ spot
Where the dogs go on with their _____
life and the _____ horse
_____ its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel’s _____ , for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the _____ may
Have heard the splash, the _____ cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun _____
As it had to on the _____ legs disappearing into the green
_____; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a _____ falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and _____ calmly on.
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