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This poem is called "By and By."

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I grew up in North Carolina in
the Primitive Baptist Church.

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There's a couple of poems
in here called "By and By."

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"At the end of the meadow
riven in the longest

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dream by the young lead
kicking the reeds with boots

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brazenly, if we were to see
his distance by then as a ray,

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extending still
hours over years,

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we might admire the stage of it.

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This is a long shot over
the southern canopy,

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revealing the clear
water thruway.

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The beaten path once beaten
will meet, as the boy is yet

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prohibited to learn.

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A log floats at
least the distance

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he has thus far traveled.

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The log does little
but turn, effortless.

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His promise to
himself is forming

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as hickory ties, wet
beneath riverside rails,

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brightened by steps at sundown.

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And underfoot, one is seared
with something, five or six

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words, interdiction feel.

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In dream science, they call
this signage in-house style

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set in small caps.

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It typically dissipates.

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Often the child start out as
Christian in his hell-bent way.

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The river turned
down and the log

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went merrily, if not the boy, to
clear water, should he keep on.

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There is no final tie
transversed to the rails,

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except the tie laid over top.

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Why are we not told plainly?

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The hems call it homecoming,
tactically, the distance

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reached at a grown man's pace.

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The boots again have
the camera's attention.

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Cicadas are sent up
hip high, and firework

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sprites each stride.

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The sun on the meadow
burns itself off like hay."

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