John Hughes

February 17, 1991 - Davenport, IA
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Just a guy who loves reading and poetry, I haven't read that much poetry but I know I love writing it. One of my favorite poems is by Thomas Hardy named Hap If but some vengeful god would call to me From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing, Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy, That thy love's loss is my hate's profiting!” Then would I bear it, clench myself, and die, Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited; Half-eased in that a Powerfuller than I Had willed and meted me the tears I shed. But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain, And why unblooms the best hope ever sow...


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