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And the belief for the
moment is in the last poem

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I want to read.

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And I think the title of it
indicates that the belief is

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for the moment.

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It's called "Final
Reflection #14."

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I guess this is as
close to a credo

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as I've ever come, or ever
tried to come, in a poem.

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"Final Reflection #14."

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"I do not know that the bird
is not pestered with thought.

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I am not sure whether, when
the sap starts downward,

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the green leaf shudders.

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I wonder about the
weight of the dues

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that the free wind
plays, the cow that

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chews the damp grass
in the pasture,

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at what expense the
puffing of her udder.

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There is so much not to learn,
so many sprouts to leave

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untouched, to let grow.

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Enough to say that the bird
moves, and makes its sound,

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and is gone.

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That the green leaf browns,
that the wind, like the weather,

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comes and goes.

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That milk is, of itself,
a gathering of bones.

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Let us walk, then, without
shoes over the old earth.

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Let us feel how, at each
falling step, we take root.

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How at the lifting of each
foot, we become more delicate

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than air.

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Let us breathe in to live by
that which we cannot answer."

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Thanks a lot.

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[APPLAUSE]

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