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Well that was written I
guess when I was about 16

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or 20 somewhere along in there.

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And I still subscribe to the
lightened scene and the unheard

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song.

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On the other hand,
one time I tried

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to figure out what I was doing
or what was happening to me.

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And this will explain it.

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"Hardening into Print."

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That is how does a poem get
to express anything that is so

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intangible as a poetic feeling.

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To catch the meaning
out of the air

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yet have it inviolably there.

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Life, I mean.

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The glimpse of power,
incomparable times

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of total splendor, the
sudden exaltations.

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Flash of a thrush, a
rush of gold and insight

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to be caught up in
titanic light as if one

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saw into the depths
of things yet

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averts the eye to try
yet furtherer mysteries.

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It is into this rich reservoir
of knowing and unknowing

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I flash and shake high
lightning spears of life

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in the long combats
of mortals strife.

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Thrush song piercing human ills
with rigor and wrench so deep.

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This glimpse is as
of an immaculate joy

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heart suffers for
and wishes to keep.

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