Pastoral

by William Carlos Williams

  


Pastoral was published in Williams' collection, Al Que Quiere! A Book of Poems (1917).
AprilHouse sparrows in Pakistan, 2008

  The little sparrows hop ingenuously about the pavement quarreling with sharp voices over those things that interest them. But we who are wiser shut ourselves in on either hand and no one knows whether we think good or evil. Meanwhile, the old man who goes about gathering dog-lime walks in the gutter without looking up and his tread is more majestic than that of the Episcopal minister approaching the pulpit of a Sunday. These things astonish me beyond words.


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