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Spring 1961 • Vol. XXIII No. 2 • Poetry |

Summer Game

Higher into the half-light,
—While the children flow out
Of their shadows and the twilight

And, soaring and sinking, shout
To follow upward what they have sailed
Higher and slowly turning about,—

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