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Now, I'd like to end it by
reading "The Farm on the Great

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Plain."

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A telephone line goes cold.

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Birds tread it wherever it goes.

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A farm back of a great plane
tugs an end to the line.

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I call that farm every
year, ringing it, listening.

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Still, no one is
home at the farm.

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The line gives only a home.

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Some year I will ring
the line on a night

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at last the right one.

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And with an eye
tapered for braille,

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from the phone on
the wall I will

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see the tenant, who waits the
last one left at the place.

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Through the dark, my Braille eye
will lovingly touch his face.

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Hello, is mother at home?

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No one is home today.

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But father, he should be there.

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No one, no one is here.

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But you, are you the one?

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Then the line will be gone
because both ends will be home.

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No space, no birds, no farm.

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Myself will be the plain
wise as winter is gray,

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pure as cold posts go
pacing toward what I know.

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[APPLAUSE]

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