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I When tulips bloom in Union Square,
And timid breaths of vernal air Go wandering down the dusty town,
Like children lost in Vanity Fair;
When every long, unlovely row Of westward houses stands aglow,

An age being mathematical, these flowers Of linear stalks and spheroid blooms were prized By men with wakened, speculative minds,
And when with mathematics they explored The Macrocosm, and came at last to The Vital Spirit of the World, and na...

The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here
Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-inI am learning peacefulness, lying by myself
As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands
I am nobody;