A Coast of Trees

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Though I
have not been here long, I can
look up at the sky at night and tell
how things are likely to go for
the next hundred million years:
the universe will probably not find
a way to vanish nor I
in all that time reappear.

A.R. Ammons

Rapids

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Topic

Man and the universe

Author

A.R. Ammons

Source

Rapids A Coast of Trees

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1981 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Ammons, Archie Randolph. "Rapids." A Coast of Trees. W. W. Norton & Company, 1981, I. 5.