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OK, one more poem
then on to the rest.

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This is called "Sather."

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Sather is a very
common Norwegian name.

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And maybe I'd better
say that as I found out,

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and as this poem tries to
make clear, but it may not.

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Its ultimate derivation is from
another Norwegian word, which

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means a mountain passenger.

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OK.

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"Old Norwegian by me on the bus.

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Travel makes you big.

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Night ride through
Redding, Red Bluff, north.

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Those forests on Snoqualmie Pass
just like the streams and woods

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where I grew up, an island
in the North Atlantic.

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And Everett at age 19, a
sailor on a schooner, 1912.

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Those loftiest mountains,
how things change.

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I used to like this country.

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Now I think I'll live in France.

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All my kids grown up.

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Was a fireman on
a coaler, A logger

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full of snoose, a dried-out
Scandinavian fisherman's son

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gone off to the Northwest.

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Name is Sather.

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Means mountain summer pasture,
like they have in Norway.

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It's a common name,
where we take our time.

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And up Queets Basin
country, that year, 1964,

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was still in August,
10 feet on the snow."