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Go to sleep, you stunning sky, gently creep, cunning by
A quiet hum is amplified by your thumb that you suck dry
A hundred raging waters snare the lonely sigh
Hold your breath and clasp at Cassiopeia.

Joanna Newsom

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Joanna Newsom (born 1982) is an American singer-songwriter. She plays the harp, as well as the piano and the harpischord.

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Birth Name: Joanna Caroline Newsom

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And in an infinite regress:
Tell me, why is the pain of birth
lighter borne than the pain of death?

And a thimble's worth of milky moon
Can touch hearts larger than a thimble.

With the loneliness
of you mighty men,
with your mighty kiss
that might never, never end,
while, so far away,
in the seat of the West,
burns the fount
of the heat
of that loneliness.

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