I Have Lived With Shades

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I have lived with Shades so long,
So long have talked to them,
I sped to street and throng,
That sometimes they
In their dim style
Will pause awhile
To hear my say;


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• 
  Sophus Niels Christen Claussen
  12 September 1865 / Helletofte – 11 April 1931 / Gentofte
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  نزار قباني
  1923-1998
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  Francis Scott Fitzgerald
  (1896 - 1940) / Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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  Carl Sandburg
  6 January 1878 – 22 July 1967 / Illinois
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  Robert Frost
  March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963 / San Francisco
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  Andrew Motion
  1952 / London, England