Words, Part 2

[lexiomnia]

When I was a child I saw
a burning bird in a tree.
I see became I am,
I am became I see.
(from 'To a Child') by Judith Wright


LO! Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim West,
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.
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Resignedly beneath the sky
The melancholy waters lie.
So blend the turrets and shadows there
That all seem pendulous in air,
While from a proud tower in the town
Death looks gigantically down.

(From 'The City in the Sea') By Edgar Allen Poe.