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Walden Found Poem

November 2, 2016
By Anonymous

My house
was merely a defense against the rain,
fit to entertain a traveling god,
and where a goddess
might trail her garments,
ruined by luxury
and heedless expense.

I was reminded of the lapse of time.
I would not be worth much thereafter.
I wished to live deliberately
and not discover
that I had not lived.

Let your affairs be two or three,
and not a hundred or a thousand.
Having once got hold,
they never let go.

Serenity reigns in the amber twilight sky,
the morning crisp with frost,
a summer pond in midwinter,
the silvery sheen from the scales of a leuciscus.

Calm and full of hope,
I wished to live deliberately
and when I came to die,
not discover
that I had not lived.

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This is a found poem made up of lines from Henry David Thoreau's Walden

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