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" …Let all lights but yours be nothing to me.
Let the memory of tongues not unnerve me so that I stumble or quake.
But lead me at times beside the still waters;
There when I crouch to drink let me catch a glimpse of your image
Before it is obscured with my own… "

W.S. Merwin


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W.S. Merwin quote : …Let all lights but yours be nothing to me.<br />Let the memory of tongues not unnerve me so that I stumble or quake.<br />But lead me at times beside the still waters;<br />There when I crouch to drink let me catch a glimpse of your image<br />Before it is obscured with my own…