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I want to end with
a farewell poem.

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It's called "A Message
From The Wanderer."

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And I preface this by
reminding you of something.

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When I came up here,
I just started a poem,

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without even saying the title.

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I wasn't forgetting how grateful
I am for being invited here.

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Being invited back here,
that's all the better.

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I'd like to come again sometime.

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[LAUGHTER]

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If I could do better,
I would, and I'm

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going to be trying hard, but
I'll end with this farewell.

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"A Message From The Wanderer."

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"Today outside your
prison I stand and rattle

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my walking stick:
Prisoners, listen;

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you have relatives outside.

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And there are thousands
of ways to escape.

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Years ago I bent my skill
to keep my cell locked,

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had chains smuggled
to me in pies,

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and shouted my plans to
jailers; but always new plans

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occurred to me, or the new
heavy locks bent hinges off,

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or some stupid jailer would
forget and leave the keys.

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Inside I dreamed of
constellations-- those feeding

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creatures outlined
by stars, their

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skeletons a darkness
between jewels, heroes that

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exist only where they are not.

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Thus freedom always came
nibbling my thought,

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just as-- often, in
light, on the open hills--

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you can pass an antelope and not
know and look back, and then--

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even before you see--

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there is something
wrong about the grass.

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And then you see.

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That's the way everything
in the world is waiting.

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Now-- these few
more words, then I'm

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gone: Tell everyone just
to remember his name,

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and remind others, later,
when we find each other.

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Tell the little ones to
cry and then go to sleep,

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curled up where they can.

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And if any of us get lost,
if any of us cannot come all

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the way--

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remember: there will come a
time when all we have said

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and all we have hoped
will be all right.

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There will be that
form in the grass."

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[APPLAUSE]

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