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I don't know if any of
you have ever gotten up

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to that Canyon de Chelly area.

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But I'm up there pretty often
now, on the Navajo reservation.

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And the canyon itself is
such an amazing place,

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mainly because it seems to just
be underneath grounds level.

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That's one of the things, and
because of the way it twists.

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And I had some depressing
views on the canyon,

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I guess from seeing it.

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I think the contrast
of the beauty of it

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gave me a very, very
strange impression,

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and produced a
rather strange poem.

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"At Canyon de Chelly".

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"If only I had a prayer
rattle to take home,

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from where water runs
over rare stucco rock,

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and mornings the sun glows
across the high mesa country

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of nature's hidden city.

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We hear voices of children we
cannot see, and iron wheels.

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It seems the tribes
just move through.

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Leave her city alone.

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The pueblo people have
moved out for good.

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Their homes remain on snaking
chasms of river honed office

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buildings, cut like
fissures above the autumn

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trees and tall grass.

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You may miss seeing it
beneath grounds level,

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but too many eyes
have peered in.

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Intimidating, I fear, presences
who keep the world's plan,

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and at dawn their rope
ladders are not let down.

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Listen to the children
playing far below.

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Notice, to the east, the
horses have no riders".

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