each by 0ne

 

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Stone by stone and step by step

And heart by heart and head by head

The beautiful days do pass

Thread by thread and leaf by leaf

And one by one and each by each

The days are beautiful and do not pass

Grain by grain and body by body

Side by side and hand by hand

Good will win the battle

Stone by grain and each by one

And hand by heart and head by heart

Love is as vast as the world.

—Robert Desnos

Todd Sanders version

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(though love be a day

and life be nothing,

it shall not stop kissing)

 

—E. E. Cummings

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