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Well, I want to
read two more poems.

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One is a dedication.

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We stood by the library.

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It was an August night.

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Priests and sisters of
hundreds of unsaid creeds

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passed us going their
separate pondered roads.

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We watch them cross
under the corner light.

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Freights on the edge of
town were carrying away

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flat cars of steel to be
made into secret guns.

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We knew being human that
they were enemy guns,

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and we were somehow
vowed to poverty.

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No one stopped or looked
long or held out a hand.

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They were following orders
received from hour to hour.

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So many signals, all strange
from a foreign power.

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But tomorrow, you said, peace
may flow over the lands.

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At that corner, in a flash
of lightning, we too stood.

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That glimpse we had will stare
through the dark forever.

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On the poorest roads, we
would be walkers and beggars,

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toward some deathless meeting
involving a crust of bread.