I Thank You God

e e cummings

Poem: http://thepoetryplace.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/i-thank-you-god-for-most-this-amazing/

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i thank you God most for this amazing day,

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i thank you God for this amazing day:

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for the leaping greenly spirits of trees

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and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything

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which is natural which is infinite, which is yes

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Verse 1

(i who have died, am alive again today,

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and this is the sun's birthday;

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this is the birth day of life and of love and of wings:

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and of the gay great happening illimitably earth)

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Verse 2

how should tasting touching hearing seeing,

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breathing any -- lifted from the no of all nothing --

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human merely being

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doubt unimaginable You?

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Verse 3

(now the ears of my ears awake and

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now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

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(now the ears of my ears awake and

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now the eyes of my eyes are opened)

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