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Their witless...

all afternoon
Their witless offspring flock like piped rats to its siren
Crescendo, and agape on the crumbling ridge
Stand in a row and learn.
- William Stanley Merwin
Attribution: William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927), U.S. poet. The Drunk in the Furnace (l. 25–28). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.

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