3712. THE ECCENTRIC FACE OF THE WORLD

THE ECCENTRIC 

FACE OF THE WORLD

The eccentric face of the world has its miles 

and centuries while I have my none and nothing;

yet, my sleeve is a smile and my leggings are

pleasures and joys. This bomber-wing-like

faction, so extreme in its manners and ways,

can take down a town or a city in time.

'I have nothing so much to do as wait.

I am Ozymandias myself; look upon

my works, towers stand to falter and

mountains tend to sand. All things

amount to nothing at all.'

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The five grand acres of Carnegie Lake

are now shrouded by fogs of the

morning and ringed by the wet

trees of June. The geese and the

ducks  -  as well as the four-legged

dwellers of this water and wood  -

come gingerly out to the shore 

to wager. This morning fog at

dawn, so thick, protects and

grants them cover.

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All things amount to nothing at all.