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Vacuum the circle again. Series, I think I ought to say at the outset, the next reading will be on February 7th, and then February 21st.

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Those would be the next two days. And Mark 7, thoughts 21st, we didn't go that far into the future. I think I'm very lucky to have

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so much of the family here this evening, considering we're competing against the creation of the universe, which is quite narrow.

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And since we then thought so long, I thought we might go off in time and space in this opening. Reading and fulfill

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Emily Dickinson's versus about a book, which is so often these versa, so often used for book fates. There is no frigate like a book

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to various lands away. Now RNA Coursera's like a page of practicing poetry. This travelers may the

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poorest take without a press TO how frugal is the chariot that bears a human. So and in this frugal chariot,

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tonight, we're going to the Orient. I'd like to read you a collection of Chinese poems, first for various hands,

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mostly from a poet, poach wave. Now these poems are translated by Arthur way. They, when they came out, I think it was about 1928.

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They made a great step. 1 of the discouraging 1919. One of the discouraging signs her at times is that we forget not only the bad,

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if several books with the good ones as well. I've noticed this in the general, shoveling away of things. A good, many excellent books I've forgotten,

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as well as some of those dessert be forgotten. And I think the authors, Azuela's Chinese poems

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are among our masterpieces. They're not only very wonderful transcriptions of the Chinese,

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but there are also experiments in English rhythms too. I had a Chinese students, Harvard's wonderful fellow whose name is Jen.

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And I asked him Arthur wireless translations. The agenda was a poet himself. And he said, I do not agree with all of to

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weigh these translations of our symbols. He said, but then no critic in China would agree with me. So apparently there's been

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a detailed interpretations of those poems as there are critics and author well as maybe consider the vowel sound as NA. I remember when I was in London in 1928,

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haven't had these volumes with me. And I saw something away and the British Museum, I don't think he ever emerges

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in the British Museum. Is still a attending our translations from Japanese and Chinese. At that time. At any rate, he has very small,

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slight tail fellow at tau1, a ham and spectacles. Very much the Scala though he was quite young because I have these books with me.

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I said to him, by the way, Mr. Wally, since I have these under my arm on to sign them. And he looked at me with

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a puzzle there and he said, without make them second-hand, wouldn't it? For now, these poems, as I say, of more periods and various hands,

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what most of them have something that I have tried for my own work and that's why perhaps a especially interest me.

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And I was trying to find a phrase for that quality. And I think I'd call it a detached immediacy. In other words, seeing very clearly,

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very vivid latest thing that is before you. And then as it were, bombing it in amber forever, with all the trivial things included.

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And of course that's not a trait which is alien to the oxidant as why these Chinese poems strikers.

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So familiarly our own toys in the tradition, Horace has so much the same. Quality and the Latin town and of course, many of the great English poet too.

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It's that feeling it, the small thing that has been seen for an instant by the poet has been preserved forever.

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And is it we're still in motion. Unlike the figures in Keats is Grecian Urn. I'm going to read you first poem which though is impressed me,

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which was written in the 300s ERA. Poet named Chan. Sheng. Chinese have a wonderful sense

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for nature, very huge nature. And yet it's not romantic nature as our romantic treatments, the Torres Strait huge nature

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is huge nature with an individual in it. There's a sense of comparison is always a human figure than the foreground. To give you a scale of reference,

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It's very strange. Cliffs that rise a thousand feet without a break. Like this stretch is

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a 100 miles with other ways, sands that are white through all the year. Without a stain. Pine tree words, winter and summer.

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Evergreen streams it forever flow and flow without a pause. Trees what for 20000 years, your vows have kept.

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Us suddenly healed the pain of the travelers hot, and moved his brush to write a new song. See the simplicity of the treatment and

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the strength to the outlines. Now this is a little pastoral. These are all fairly short that I'm reading to you.

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This is an anonymous form of about the same time. So charming little pastoral. A boy and a girl had been sent out

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to plug Rushes for taxiing roofs. Green rushes with red shoots, long leaves bending to the way in. You and I in the same boat,

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plucking rushes at the five lakes. We started at dawn from the arcade island. We arrested under the LMS till noon. You and I talking

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rashes and not flat a handful when night came. That's another thing you find a nice Chinese poems is

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always just a brushstroke of humans. Speaking your brushstrokes. One reason is my friend Ta Gen, found all the interpretation

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slightly different is because the choreography as cartel, the calligraphy. Homeless, I've speaking of the thinking of the dancing, appearance,

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the signs, the calligraphy of the Chinese, Israeli, a part of the thought. The picture of the poem on the page has something

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to do with the effect of the poem, which of course further complicate the critical interpretation. And speaking of that,

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calligraphy, career, graphical calligraphy. Our own modern poets haven't wholly abandoned this, though. I don't think that isn't

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appropriate in English, especially on the printed page. The appearance of the frigid stage has a great influence in the interpretation of

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the poems of E Cummings, for example. Whereas you know, he breaks up his words and sends them all over the page. Cause in the 17th century,

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we had poets just as a stunt, making their poems come out in the shape of gravestones are wings and so on. But that was a

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deliberate and artificial device, not be taken too seriously. I think. Here's a slight satire on businessmen.

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You'll notice that most of these poems have a very modern touch. This one was written by Chen Suan, who lived between 656 and 690.

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A business men both to this scale and cunning. But in philosophy they are like little children bragging to each other.

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I've successful depredations, neglect to consider the ultimate fate of the body. What should they know are

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the master of dark truth who saw the wide world and a j cut by a human conception. Got fair heaven and earth.

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And the child have mutation, entered the gate of the mutability at 0 and goes right from the satire

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into the philosophy. And there again, it's characteristic of Chinese poetry as far as I read it. For the poet to modulate into

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another subject with almost no interval between. This one I read before this audience. This was written at about the time of

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the Norman conquest side of the world. This is on the birth of a son that Samsung families when a child is born, want it to be intelligence.

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Through intelligence having wrecked my whole life. Only hope the baby will prove ignorant, stupid.

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Then he will crown a tranquil life by becoming a cabinet minister. That's more than enough. This is a lovely thing now this is merely a picture,

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reminds one of the Chinese paintings. On the other hand, our thoughts to this picture seem to have, if not an eternal significance at any rate,

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a significance in endless times. This is called How I sail down the lake till I came to the eastern stream of spring water,

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30 or 40 miles in the evening sunlight. Three or four houses, youths and boys minding geese and ducks. Women and girls, tending now brazen him,

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place, remote, their coat, send scarves out. The year, fruitful. That off and laughed, guy. They all wanderer, Maus his flat boat

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and staggers up the bank to pluck with stereo flowers. You see you have in those few lines, almost an entire was worth in philosophy

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or even of the simple life or even a thermos, like philosophy ever thought. These people. For all, code says calves URL,

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then you have the contrast with the years fruitful talk and there Laughter again. Now most of these Chinese poet seem to Vince urban folk.

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There was one was translated two years ago, I reviewed his poems to the times. I think his name is Chen, who's called him a toy.

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But the idea of the hamate thought was so strange to the Chinese. This particular poet was labeled the hamate. Most of them are cautious

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and government officials and men who had taken the regular education is a capsule. Some of them are governors of provinces

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like the great poet paul chewy. And so fourth pouch we cost at 1 defended the emperor. And he was sent off

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a remote provinces governor. And he wrote an angry time in which he ended. Here I am satisfied if I meet with anyone who was even remotely humans.

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Which again is another point about this far is a very personal out the inspite of the fact that they are obviously

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bounded the same tradition. I want to give you an example of the way small objects, a huge, very touching effect.

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This is see this pipe fell to a yes, this is that fluctuate. Long ago, a white hair, gentlemen, You made me the presence of

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a black gauze hat. The gauze hat still sits on my head. But you already had gone to the nether springs.

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The thing is old but still fit to where the man is gone, and it will never be seen again. Out on the hill.

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The moon is shining tonight. And the trees on your tomb as swayed by their awesome When. Think I'll read that again

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because it's so amazing. They confess, small algae to the hazard outlast the man. And then that sudden is again,

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I said sudden modulation to the tomb and the wind outside. Long ago, a white gentleman. You made me the present if

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a black gauze hat because hats still sits on my head. But you already had gone to the nether springs.

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The thing is old but still fit to where the man is gone. And you will never be seen again. Out on the hill.

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The moon is shining tonight, and the trees on your two swayed by the autumn wind. Something moves me very deeply.

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Maybe I have some personal affinity for this sort of writing. It's the kind of writing this I like to do for using these very simple effects.

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You can at the same time and both these overtones of the task and the future. We are now reading from poach way.

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I'd like to give you his exact dates. He lived in our eighth century and to me, 7072 to 846. According to an arrangement of time.

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He gives this very intimate glimpses of his life. For example, after examinations. This is very appropriate.

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The present time that those who are giving them can feel thankful as those who take them and narrow fetch myself has been to the university now,

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the capsule took him 10 years reading the classics. This is written about 800. Ten years, I never left my books.

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I went up and one unmerited praise, my high place. I do not much prize the joy of my parents. So first, make me proud.

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Fellow students, six or seven men see me office, I leave the city gate. Nyc covered. Coach is ready to drive away.

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Flu, since strings blend, they're partying too, hopes to achieve Dell, the pains of pine,

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fumes of wine sharpen the long rows. Shod with wings is the horses, him who rides on a spring day, the road that leads to our homes.

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This last two lines, you see a complete change of mood. Sarah has done very well. I'm going to miss this a great deal and I'm

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saying goodbye six or seven students and so on. And then suddenly he feels free. And the whole landscape of opens shod with

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wings is the host of him who rides on a spring day. The road leads towards home. That's

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another characteristic of all these poems. Great feeling for home. Many of them are very painful because they had the fifth or

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devastations of whiteness we have. And a good many of them are written by people who come home to find the home gone

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or who are wandering in exile. This is a rather charming for him I think. Which gives us an insight into Tokyo is easygoing, humorous nature.

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I've got pet is called lazy man songs. I've got patronage, but I'm too lazy to use it. I have got land for them to visit a fall,

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too lazy to farm it. My house leaks. I'm too lazy to mend it. My toes are turned on.

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I'm too lazy to done them. I've got one, but I'm too lazy to drink. So it's just the same as if my cell, our empty.

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I've gotta ha, but I'm too lazy to play. It's just the same as if it had no strings. My wife tells me there is no more bread in the house.

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I want a vague, but I'm too lazy to grind. My friends and relatives write me long letters.

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I should like to read them, but they're such a bother to open. I've always been told that she shoe yay past

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his whole life and absolute idleness. But he played the HA, and sometimes transmuted metals. So even he was not so lazy as I am.

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This one I like particularly and came home to my wife and me the other night and we were walking up the road and the moon and

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thinking how few people were enjoying that wonderful night. And apparently the same thought occurred to poach we

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use passing the 10 Main Street in Chang'an and he saw a distance view. The churn non mountain. Titles are almost was worthy and are there.

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It's only four lines long to the snow has gone from Chang'an spring is almost come. Lovely and the distance, it's blue. Colors against the brown are the streets.

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8 thousand coaches, 10000 horsemen pass down the nine rows. Turns his head and looked at the mountains. Not one man.

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One for single lines. And where these translations to this is one of the lines from an egg cells form. I want to go home,

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but there's no way back. Want to go home because there's no way back to Scott. So simply that's effects.

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And then there's another line that occurs to me. This man is looking at a breathtaking landscape

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and suddenly he wonders why he's writing a poem about it. He says, When we would speak of these things would suddenly fail us.

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So sudden choose that come through these coils which are timeless, which bring out the little intimate and passing things.

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Portugal had a friend named Johann chain and they, like David and Jonathan. It was a very beautiful friendship.

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And very famous throughout China. Yuan chain died. And poetry after his death of several exquisite dream poems

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about yes, yuan Chen. And this is one of them's. At night I dreamed I was back in Chang'an. I saw again, face is evolved friends.

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And in my dreams, Andrew and April sky, they lead me by the hand to wander in the spring wins.

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Together we came to the village of peace and quiet. We stopped our horses at the gate of Yuan change.

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Yuan chain was sitting all alone. He saw me coming, a smile came to his face. He pointed back at

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the flowers in the Western caught, then opened wine in the Northern summer house. He seemed to be saying that

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neither of us had changed. He seemed to be regretting the GI will not stay. That our souls had met

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only for a little while to part again with hardly time for breathing. I woke up and thought him still at my side. I put out my hand.

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There was nothing et al. Another beautiful thought about yuan Chen and another friend, which ends does Thoughtonomy dreams

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as these two friends of his men in the afterlife and then on the steps of the sunset that he now you are not in a memorable line,

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causes pop into us away. This is a semi original poems is recreations, if you will, of the Chinese originals. The beautiful thing against

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its merely one of those picture for the Western Wind has blown over a few days. Yet the first leaf already flies from above.

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And the drying parts, I walk in my shoes in the first cold I've done my quilted code. Too shallow ditches.

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The floods or clearing away through spouse bamboos, trickles a slanting life in the early desk down an olive green moss.

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The garden boy is leading the Crane's home. And I think perhaps this will be the last one. Oh well, I don't know

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the poems on low young a very beautiful and said to the first one celebrating low Yang. The second telling about its ruins.

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Second is very like an Anglo-Saxon poem about the ruined city. I think I'm in the wrong volume. Yes.

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I'll get them together starting to and from one to the other. This is written by the emperor Shen Wen Ti in the 500s.

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Great many of the early emperors were poets themselves. Of course. This is charming picture his capital city.

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A beautiful place is the town of La Yang. The big streets are full of spring light. The labs go driving up with hops in their hands.

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The mulberry girls go out to the fields with their baskets. Golden whips grant if the horse is flanks, gauze leaves brush the green bows.

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Racing dawn. The carriages come home and the girls with their high baskets. I'm happy to say this,

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this poem about the ruins of low yarn. When you're dealing with Chinese history and poetry for 500 years is nothing. And our vertices, the point

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about the ruins of low Yang is written 400 years before the emperor's point about Lian. So we may take it for granted.

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Today came to life again. Maybe that may give us some hope for present-day China. This is by sow,

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Civ lives as well toward the end of the 100s. And this is the ruins of low yarn after one of their wars. I crime to the rich,

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pay Man Mountain and look down on the city of LA young and low young. How still it is. Palace. Palaces and houses

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all burnt to ashes, walls and fences, all broken and gaping. Thorns and brambles shooting up to the sky. I do not see the old, old man.

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I see only the new young men. I turn aside for the straight road is lost. The fields are overgrown and will never be plowed again.

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I had been away such a long time that I do not know which street is which, how sad and ugly the empty Moore's.

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1000 miles without the smoke from a chimney. I think of the house I lived in all those years. I am hot tide and I cannot speak.

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Anglo-saxon poem about the ruined cities, which is very like that, was about the city if there's a broken walls and so on.

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As escape to kinship between these Orientals poets, our own and the essential of emotions as you see.

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And I must read you one more satire and civilization. Perhaps you saw Douglass Bush's article in yesterday's New York Times.

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Education for All is education finance versus a very stiff man? Well, this, this poem says somewhat the same. This is written in about the year 740.

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To the Southeast, 3 thousand leagues. The Yuan and Sian form into a mighty lake. Above the lake deep mountain valleys. And men dwelling whose hearts are without

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guile, gay like children, they swarm to the tops of the trees and run to the water to catch BREEAM and trout.

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Their pleasures are the same as those of beasts and birds. They put no restraint either on body or mind. Far I've wandered throughout the nine lands.

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Wherever I went. Such manners had disappeared. I find myself stand, standing and wondering, perplexed where the saints and

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sages have really done as good. A delightful mad for him, addressed Portuguese nephews and nieces. He both cities career.

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But I think that our 10 aside from these now. And I don't know whether to redo Candida albicans. Maybe we have time for both

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since we're in the Orient. I thought I'd read you wanted to have my own paraphrases from the Egyptians. But for the death, these

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I did many years ago, 1928 candidates like 21 under the guidance of yea well as budge who is the curator

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of Egyptian antiquities, It's a British Museum. Badge is such a typically English name reminds me.

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The time I had lodgings is a house of the MRS. Love. And I had a card of introduction to a gentleman named Mr.

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gap or is it delightful man, service to gather? Ask me where I was doing. I said hours live in

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the house kept by the MRS. Love. Love, love. What an extraordinary name. Well, each agenda under the approval of a well as that then.

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And this is the hymn to the sun, which the most the books to the data from cost, the folks to the dead for call that merely

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for the Arabs because they were found with the dead. The real Egyptian title of these ancient books is the book.

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The chapters are coming forth by day, which is much nicer. Homage to these, him to the center, I might say fiery,

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this fits the Egyptian. The fact that the sun came up every morning was a miracle as well. The Egyptian Empire lasted so long because

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each day was considered as a miracle in itself. In order to rise the sun had to combat the powers of darkness,

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the apathy, second of deafness. And every time the dawn came into something unprecedented, unexpected and a new blessing in itself.

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And the whole land came alive with a prayer of thanksgiving. Well, it comes like again, sort of perpetually to task.

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And this is the Hindu, the sun. I'm not sure I did ride and Rami's, I didn't use rhyme and the rest of these toys.

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Homage to the dye. Tremendous rising arises. Thou shyness, heavens or role the side. Though.

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The king of Gods. Thou art they all comprising from the we come in. They are DFIs that priests go forth at dawn.

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They wash their hearts with laughter. Divine winds move in music across the Golden strings. At sunset they embrace they

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as every cloud a rafter flame. So the reflected color from NIH weighings, thou say list over the zenith. And that hot rejoices.

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Morning bulk and eating belt with fair winds meet together before thy face the goddess Maat. Exalts how fateful feather and a

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tie name the halls Yvonne a ring with devices. Although perfect, eternal Dao, only one great hawk that flyers with

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the flying sun between the second law's our rises young forever. Thy an image flashing on the right celestial river.

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Thy rays are on all faces. Thou Robin scrollable. Age after age, thy life renews it. Sega, prime time quills,

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It's dust beneath the thou immutable maker of time, thyself beyond all times. Thou passes through the pores,

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those that cause behind the night, gladdening the cells of them lay in sorrow. The true word, the quiet, arise to drink thy life.

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Today and yesterday. Tomorrow. Homage to the wake, a slide from slumber.

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Thou rises, thou shiniest psi radiant face affairs. Millions of years past. We cannot count then number.

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Millions of years show Come Thou above the ears. Just to lunch. Short one.

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A description of the other worlds. Cost the books of the theater and justice with catalogs of gods and

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magic spells and so forth. And you have to drag out the poetical passages from among them, like getting a knot

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out if they need out of a hickory enough. So some of these stances were taken here and there in a single chapter that they're

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all quite literal according to his vision. I think this is Hathi was mentioned in his poems, the God. Now here a cake for I bought a dash here.

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This is a description as the other we're here or cakes. Well, I bought a cool water for the eth route.

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Sweet raises for thy nostos and satisfied. No longer just stumble upon I chosen path for NIH mind all evil and darkness fall away.

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Here by the river, drink and bathe, violins, cost ins, and surely it shall be filled with fish. The holy cow of cafes Give her milk.

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They get the ALL God's triumphant, shall be thy daily draft. White men in his diet, tunic, sandals shine, we'll go victorious,

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thy weapons. That's death. Come not again. Now upon them will win. Now follow a style prints.

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Now thou hast refreshment under the leafy trays. Take wings to climb the zenith or sleep and seals a piece by day the sun.

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So keep the thigh night, rising star. Those words. And about six or 7 thousand years ago, or even somewhat older

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than our Chinese friends. I want to read you now. A little reconstruction of a Japanese derived by Carnatic and

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curation is a modern poet. And in the case of so many contemporary poets, It's difficult for me to give

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a criticism of his works because we're all friends. Here's a poet who never seems quite to have achieved

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his own possibilities to fulfill these potentialities. He seems to Pete it out to an extent. Almost his best works with the beginning,

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works like the house of dust from which I'm going to read you this story. And the Swiss poem, the first, well, his first prefers 10000 movies

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with the first long poem, the jiggle faster than and then not ten remembered spring. This was back in 1915 to 1925,

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let's say around there, that decade, there's so many things were coming out and poetry and Aiken like so many writers of that theory,

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got entangled in a sort of amateur interpretation of fraud in symbolism. And it wasn't good for his poetry. Because to an extent,

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he dogma has done it and limited his poetry. I don't know what cause. The cause for the fact that a can is never come and who is,

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he's never accomplish his best. But some of these early things are very beautiful magic about him and none more. So I think for this story from the Japanese,

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which is in the House of Dust. It has little introduction. Five lines. You read, what is it then? You are rating. But music

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moves so silently in your mind, your right hand turns the page. I watch you from my window, unsuspected, will move in an alien land.

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A silent age. The poet policies named okay. Okay. The poet walked alone in the cold light rain

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and thought his grief was like be crying or sea birds. For his level was dead. He would never love again.

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Rain and the dreams of the mind reign forever, reign in the sky of the hot rain and the willows.

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But then he saw this face, this face like flames. This quiet lady, this portrait by Hiroshi j, and took it home with him.

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And with it came while unexpected changes settlers, whether the dark room coal is rain, blue, faintly fragrant, stead with a sterile April,

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warmed its contents with light again and smoke of incense weld about this pocket. And the quiet lady, they're so young, so quietly smiling with calm hands,

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seemed ready to lose her hair and smile. And then from the picture or say one words, the word already clear, which seem to rise like

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life between her eyelids. Female, his breath to hear and smile for Shane and drank a cup of wine and held a candle,

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and searched her face through all the little shadows to see what secrets might give so warm a grace wasn't a quiet mouth

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restrained a little eyes half turn the sides. The Jade ring on her wrist, still almost swinging. Secret was denied.

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He chose his favorite pen and drew these verses and slept and slept a dream came into his heart, his lover, and chided him and West.

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And in the morning waking, you remembered and thought the dream was strange. Why did is dark and

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love our rise in the garden? He turned and felt that change as if a somewhat hidden smile and watched him.

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Yet there was only sunlight until I saw those young eyes quietly smiling and held his breath to stare and could have thrown her cheek

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it 10 litter had slightly turned away, sunlight, those done the floor. He says in London, or left his room that day.

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And that day and for many days thereafter, he sat alone and thought no lady had ever lived so beautiful as heroes, Jay, Jay Rock. Or if she lives no matter what country,

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what fall, river or hair or lonely see. He will look in every face until he found there was no other as fair as she. And before Pilate face IEP,

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then soft incense and brought her every day boughs of the peach or almond or Snow White charities. And somehow she seemed to

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say that silent lady young and quietly smiling. She was happy there. And sometimes seeing this,

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he started to tremble and desire to touch her hair, to lay his palm along her hand. Touch faintly with delicate fingertips

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that goes, they smile. They seem to hover and vanish upon her lips. Until I knew he loved this quiet ladies. And night by night,

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Dread lead his dreams. For a new Hiroshi G was many centuries dead. In the late a2 is dead. And also new dad and long-term dust.

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Justin moon waxed and waned and left him Thaler. The peach leaves flew in August and he would surely have died there one day, wise man,

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white with age, stared at the portrait and said, this Hiroshi j Nu more of an outcome age coming.

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They drew the body and call the spirit till late entered there. Sometimes at death it entered the portrait. Holidays do all I say with care.

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And she you love may come to you when you call. So then this goes talk k, random some wine of

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a 100 merchants and the loan at the end of day until the darkening room and face the portrait. And saw the quiet eyes gleaming and

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yon in the dust and held the wine cup. And now, and did not rise and set allows. Lausanne. While you drink this wine,

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said it three times, allows. And as I said, the same blue smoke of incense rose to the walls and the clouds.

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And the lips move faintly. The eyes and the calm hands. And suddenly will assign. The quiet lady came slowly

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down from the portrait and stood while worlds and lifted her young white hands and took the wind costs.

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And the poet trembled and said, No sound. You stay forever. Yes, I will stay. But Hoffman, I'm dead.

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When you are dead, your spirit will find my spirit and then we shall die. No more. Music came down upon

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them in spring returning. They remembered worlds before. And years went over there and over the sea. And love us were born and spoke and died.

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But forever and sunlight when these two and also top-k and the quiet rise. As in the case of Coleridge's Ancient Mariner.

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This seems to be one of the few things that I can really got brought to a conclusion, this short story.

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It's a beautiful units I think. I don't know how you feel about it. I pause that's about it because I happen to know that he doesn't like it himself.

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I think there's a reason for that. The very curious, very small reason. There's a mistake. There are mistakes. Axis keeps made and his son it,

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though not in comparable quality. Speaking of Cortez instead of da Boa, because Harish CG hadn't essentially is dead because death who die in 858.

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I don't know whether that's via hn doesn't night for him or not remade deaths, little slit. It shouldn't make him dislike

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it because it's a very beautiful 5. And what is time? Suddenly the Chinese poet should be the first to say that.

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I'm going to conclude as usual as rho time was to three things in my own. One which you may have heard before called overture.

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Fact I have read it for watching. Read it again and again to new ones. This is at C and a little of this record played

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in the room has lost all the music I heard that night, foreign, see, I was alone and I sailboat, sail breathing slacker the like

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as the ripple is about placid manner. And the tall mast as slim black needle plying the Northstar. No one within miles of May

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except when starboard light. So at time signal three barges in tau and beyond that of the invisible shoreline.

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The flashing white and red is the lighthouse. This music came from my radio and the darkness. And tell me that I must sale alone

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until in somehow the unknowns, the composer. But which I could barely summize. I arrived at dawn and dropped anchor and rode ashore.

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And another dream beyond the style I have. This one. The friends I've never found. Crowding evolve.

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Waiting with welcome. The music came to an end, but the tonal shifts moved on to a rhythm deeper than the keel

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or the waters under the keel and higher than the Northstar over the masthead riding. Sydney was one of the most beautiful,

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nice I ever spent my life. That's the sort of thing I'd like to pin down that test immediacy. I spoke at times

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for these two systems called Eternal Return. Along how many main streets have I walk? Grading my friends, commenting on the weather,

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carrying bundles, wondering as I talked, if the brown paper bags were held together. At Christmas time with white breath blowing thin.

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In spring when God and tidings are exchanged in all of them, with the darkness closing in. And all the winters were to be

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arranged wherever I have lived. And many places have briefly seen my preeminent about the shops on Main Street.

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And the passing faces beyond all history and change of mode remain the same. And if one on a walk,

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I should encounter people who belong and main streets of my past. I've stopped to talk without suspecting anything was wrong.

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Even if I met someone who was dead, I will discount the death is in a dream. Here, things that lie behind, still ahead and calendars.

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Let's sign or the same external accidents of time and space. But come on Main Street. But they use re areas as

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all my incarnations face to face, repeat themselves. Like people in two mirrors. I greeted acquaintances unchanged

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as I stop for a moment, comment on the weather and the corner. As I say goodbye, pray God, my paper bundles held together,

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arching food with a little cough. Or incidentally before I think fields that we say that our welcome requests

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and suggestions as usual. This time, as I say, library to draw on which is a little easier. And perhaps I can have

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more varieties because it's under my fingertips. This is called a relic. A murmuring and empty shells recalls the oceans undertone,

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but not a wisp of music dwells. In this small skull. Bone. A thrushes skull,

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miraculous among dead leaves and threads device. This delicate contrivance was the sounding board or paradise.

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Beneath the tree lies music's skull. The tree, a skeleton of spring. And both apps are beautiful. The leaves and thrash, no longer saying.

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But growing old, I have a reason for wishing some divine delay. Could hold a song beyond its season and hide the thrushes skull away.