An Address

"An Address" is the third song of Dorothy Chang's song cycle Burning.

Date: 2004Composer: Dorothy ChangText: William Carlos WilliamsSong Collection: Burning

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An Address
by William Carlos Williams

Walk softly on my grave
for I desired you,

a matter for sorrow
for decay;

flowers without odor
garlanded

about the sad legend:
Live in this

whom green youth denied.

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