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Though I have not been here long, I can look up at the sky at night and tell how things… — A.R. Ammons

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Though I have not been here long, I can look up at the sky at night and tell how things are likely to go for the next hundred million years: the universe will probably not find a way to vanish nor I in all that time reappear.

A.R. Ammons
Rapids · 1981
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Man and the universe
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1981
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Ammons, Archie Randolph. "Rapids." A Coast of Trees. W. W. Norton & Company, 1981, I. 5.

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