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Excerpt from On the Des Moines
To be at ease, To find repose. And next there falls from me My old idolatrous worship Of efficiency. Constantly it has goaded me With its measures for action, With its yardstick, Itsfoot-pound, Its horse-power, Until I have stumbled vacant-eyed With exhaustion and anguish. I begin to see things That money cannot buy; hat within me Which a carefully cultivated reputation Has allowed to atrophy, Which efficiency Has failed to grasp in its steel fetters My judgment of the values of life, The ?owering of my own personality, These awaken From their slumber of many days. I begin to comprehend That from the wellsprings of the mind Comes repose. I continue to bathe Along the shining sands The water kisses my entire body.
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