Black Country Living Museum/museum

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    “The body is no body to be seen
    But is an eye that studies its black lid.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

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    “More than a thousand years it is since she
    Was beautiful: she trod the living grass;
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    “A fallen tree does not rise again.”
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