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Well, I'll go on reading--

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I'll read-- what I'll do is I'll
continue reading four or five

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more early poems.

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And then I'll go on to read some
poems which are of the 1930s.

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And then I'll read a few poems
of the Spanish Civil War.

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And then I'll read
some later poems.

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Here's another early poem,
which is the sort of childhood--

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reminiscence of
childhood, really.

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"My parents kept
me from children

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who were rough, who
threw words like stones

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and who wore torn clothes.

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Their thighs showed
through rags.

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They ran in the street and
climbed cliffs and stripped

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by the country streams.

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I feared more than
tigers their muscles

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like iron, their jerking
hands, and their knees

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tight on my arms.

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I feared the thought
course pointing

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of those boys who copied my
list behind me on the road.

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They were life.

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They sprang out behind hedges
like dogs to bark at my world.

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They threw mud while I
looked the other way,

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pretending to smile.

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I long to forgive them,
but they never smiled."

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