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Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning.

Source: Not Waving But Drowning.
-- Stevie Smith, (Sep 20 1902-1971), English poet; She expressed an original and visionary personality in her work, combining a lively wit with penetrating honesty and an absence of sentiment.

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