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One other New Hampshire poem.

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This one is called
"Mount Kearsarge."

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How embarrassing to
read a mountain poem

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when you're here, in Arizona,
because those aren't mountains,

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compared to these mountains.

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But, Mount Kearsarge,
the farm up

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there is surrounded by hills.

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But there are some hills that
have it and some that don't.

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Mount Kearsarge is the one
that has the god to it.

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My grandmother's been there
92 years, in the same house.

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Every morning, for
virtually 92 years,

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she's gotten up and
looked out the window

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and said, mountain's
real pretty today,

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or, can't see the
mountain too good today.

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Because of the mist and the fog.

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But it really has that
incredible presence.

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From the porch of the
farmhouse where I watched you

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all summer as a
boy, steep sides,

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narrow flat patch on top.

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You are clear to me, like
the memory of one day.

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Blue.

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Blue.

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The top of the mountain
floats in haze.

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I will not rock on this
porch when I am old.

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I turn my back on
you, Kearsarge.

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I close my eyes, and you
rise inside me, blue ghost.

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