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Words in Time

Words in Time by Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) ' Bewildered with the broken tongue Of wakened angels in our sleep- Then, lost the music that was sung And lost the light time cannot keep! There is a moment when we lie Bewildered, wakened out of sleep, When light and sound and all reply: That moment time must tame and keep. That moment, like a flight of birds Flung from the branches where they sleep, The poet with a beat of words Flings into time for time to keep. ' Poems on the Underground Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin from New & Collected Poems, 1917-1976

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