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And the last of these
poems in the sequence,

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and the last I'll be
reading this evening

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is in the form of a riddle.

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It's to be seen as
written on a card

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or a label attached to a
gift in the shape of a heart.

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"Open this and you will see a
waste, a nearly naked tree that

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will not rest till it is bare
but shivers in the air scraping

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at its yellow leaves.

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Winter, when the
tempest heaves it

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riots in the heavens and
convulsions of self punishment.

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What cannot rest, that it
is there the branches crack

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and fibers tear."

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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