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This is a poem
about geese and it's

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called "The Life of Others."

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It was written around this time
of the year but in the North,

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in New York state
near the Great Lakes.

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"The Life of Others."

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"Their high-pitched baying as
if in prayers unison, remote,

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undistracted, given
over utterly to belief.

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The skein of geese
voyages douth.

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Hierarchic arrow
of its convergence

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toward the point of grace,
swinging and rippling,

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ribbon tail of a kite,
loftily over lakes where

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they have not elected to rest.

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Over men who suppose Earth
is man's, over golden earth,

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preparing itself for
night and winter.

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We humans are smaller than
they, and crawl unnoticed,

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about and about the smoky map."

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[APPLAUSE]

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