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And finally, the
last poem that's

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in the new manuscript, new book.

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It is called "The
Laughing Thrush."

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Oh nameless joy of the
morning, turning upward,

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tumbling upward note by note
out of the night, and the hush

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of the dark valley, and out of
what never has not been there.

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Song unquestioning
and unbounded--

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yes, this is the
place and the one time

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in the whole of
before and after,

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with all the memory
waking into it,

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and the lost visages that
hover around the edge of sleep,

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constant and clear, and the
words that lately have fallen

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silent, the surface among
the phrases of some future,

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if there is a future--

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here is where they all
sing the first daylight,

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whether or not there's
anyone listening.

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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