For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And …

Ernest Hemingway
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For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (1992). Complete Poems, p.34, U of Nebraska Press
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For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (1992). Complete Poems, p.34, U of Nebraska Press

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