Hic Jacet

William Carlos WilliamsWilliam Carlos Williams

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The coroner’s merry little children
Have such twinkling brown eyes.
Their father is not of gay men
And their mother jocular in no wise,
Yet the coroner’s merry little children
  Laugh so easily.
They laugh because they prosper.
Fruit for them is upon all branches.
Lo! how they jibe at loss, for
Kind heaven fills their little paunches!
It’s the coroner’s merry, merry children
  Who laugh so easily.
William Carlos Williams
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William Carlos Williams

1883 - 1963/Male/AmericanA physician, painter and poet closely associated with modernism and imagism.

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