Happiness

Portrait of Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith 1902–1971

Happiness is silent, or speaks equivocally for friends, Grief is explicit and her song never ends, Happiness is like England, and will not state a case, Grief, like Guilt, rushes in and talks apace.

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