Good verbs

[Anne Bradstreet]

To be being and to have been being while I am inging You, He, Sheeee..It …I
burst then bursted my lays and my lies as if I was or were or had swum or
swam up She's creek or having had set or did sit on the rise or the raiser
and wrote or had written what I wished was or were or had began or begun
when the looting and hooting and tooting all got to being had beens and been
there done that'sall well and good verb…but can you clause across the
fragments of my dangling prepositions and subordinate my moods?   There is a
wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a
Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest
gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces.
And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the
mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still
higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.
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