You cannot see the walls that divide your hand
From his or hers or mine when you think you touch it.

You cannot see the walls because they are glass,
And glass is nothing until you try to pass it.

Beat on it if you like, but not too hard,
For glass will break you even while you break it.

Shout, and the sound will be broken and driven backwards,
For glass, though clear as water, is deaf as granite.

This fraudulent inhibition is cunning: wise men
Content themselves with breathing patterns on it.

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External links

Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

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Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Poems in English 

• November by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• Mutation by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• Love and Folly by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• June by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• William Cullen Bryant – William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• Hymn To Death by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• Hymn of the City by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• Consumption by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• After a Tempest by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• A Song of Pitcairn’s Island by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• A Forest Hymn by William Cullen Bryant by William Cullen Bryant
• William Henry Davies by Fledermaus
• The Example by William Henry Davies by William Henry Davies
• The Dark Hour by William Henry Davies by William Henry Davies
• The Child and the Mariner by William Henry Davies by William Henry Davies
• The Boy by William Henry Davies by William Henry Davies
• The Bird of Paradise by William Henry Davies by William Henry Davies
• The Best Friend by William Henry Davies by William Henry Davies
• Sweet Stay-at-Home by William Henry Davies by William Henry Davies

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

Doska or the Board – write anything

Search engines:

Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees

Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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