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   year_of_publication="1926"
   genre="Poetry"
   genre="Poetry"
   publisher="New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation"
   publisher="Liveright Publishing Corporation"
   journal="April Airs: The Collected Poems of Hart Crane"
   journal="April Airs: The Collected Poems of Hart Crane"
   page_range="73-74"
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== Chaplinesque ==




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<poem>
<poem>
WE make our meek adjustments,
We make our meek adjustments,
Contented with such random consolations
Contented with such random consolations
As the wind deposits
As the wind deposits
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<paragraph keywords="animal, road, traffic">
<poem>
<poem>
For we can still love die world, who find
For we can still love the world, who find
A famished kitten on the step, and know
A famished kitten on the step, and know
Recesses for it from the fury of the street.
Recesses for it from the fury of the street,
Or warm tom elbow coverts.
Or warm torn elbow coverts.
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More than the pirouettes of any pliant cane;
More than the pirouettes of any pliant cane;
Our obsequies are, in a way, no enterprise.
Our obsequies are, in a way, no enterprise.
We can evade you, and all else but the heart;
We can evade you, and all else but the heart:
What blame to us if the heart live on.
What blame to us if the heart live on.
</poem>
</poem>

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Bibliographic Information
Author Crane, Hart
Genre Poetry
Journal or Book April Airs: The Collected Poems of Hart Crane
Publisher Liveright Publishing Corporation
Year of Publication 1926
Pages 73-74
Additional information -


We make our meek adjustments,
Contented with such random consolations
As the wind deposits
In slithered and too ample pockets.


For we can still love the world, who find
A famished kitten on the step, and know
Recesses for it from the fury of the street,
Or warm torn elbow coverts.

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We will sidestep, and to the final smirk
Dally the doom of that inevitable thumb
That slowly chafes its puckered index toward us,
Facing the dull squint with what innocence
And what surprise!


And yet these fine collapses are not lies
More than the pirouettes of any pliant cane;
Our obsequies are, in a way, no enterprise.
We can evade you, and all else but the heart:
What blame to us if the heart live on.


The game enforces smirks; but we have seen
The moon in lonely alleys make
A grail of laughter of an empty ash can,
And through all sound of gaiety and quest
Have heard a kitten in the wilderness.