Nicholas Vachel Lindsay

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    Factory windows are always broken.
    Somebody’s always throwing bricks,
    Somebody’s always heaving cinders,
    Playing ugly Yahoo tricks.
    Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)

    on a Saterday
    This carpenter was goon til Oseney,
    And hende Nicholas and Alisoun
    Accorded been to this conclusioun,
    That Nicholas shal shapen hem a wile
    This sely jalous housbonde to bigile,
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    The South Wind is a baker.
    —Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)