Sir Walter Long

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    “When Sir Joshua Reynolds died
    All Nature was degraded;”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “And they be these: the wood, the weed, the wag.
    The wood is that which makes the gallow tree;
    The weed is that which strings the hangman’s bag;”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)

    “in the pleasure of that communion

    I lose track,
    the moon I watch goes down, the

    tide swings you away before
    I know I’m
    alone again long since,”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)