life is more true
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life is more true than reason will deceive
a song for voice and piano by Greg Anderson (2003)
life is more true than reason will deceive
(more secret or than madness did reveal)
deeper is life than lose:higher than have
but beauty is more each than living’s all
multiplied with infinity sans if
the mightiest meditations of mankind
canceled are by one merely opening leaf
(beyond whose nearness there is no beyond)
or does some littler bird than eyes can learn
look up to silence and completely sing?
futures are obsolete;pasts are unborn
here less than nothing’s more than everything
death,as men call him,ends what they call men
but beauty is more now than dying’s when
- e. e. cummings
