River Rats

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“It is ... despair at the mutability of all created things that links the Artist and the Ascetic—a desire to purify and preserve—to set oneself apart—somehow—from the river flowing onward to the grave.”
—Michele Murray (1933–1974)

“But suddenly it chanced to rain,
And so they all went home again.”
—Unknown. Three Young Rats (l. 7–8)