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And still from that same time,
a poem called "The Chaff."

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These are mostly rural poems.

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And I'm going to have to
correct that at some point,

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because there are
cities, after all.

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"The Chaff."

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And do you remember the--

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my father was a
Presbyterian minister.

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And I was early
struck by that image,

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"The ungodly are not so,
but are like the chaff

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which the wind driveth away."

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You remember that?

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I was really taken by that
as a very small child.

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And I, of course, had to
know what the chaff was,

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and I'd never seen it.

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But that's one of the examples
of the sound of language

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seizing you before you
can know what it's about.

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There's something so powerful
in that version of the Bible

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that, you can correct
it all you like later,

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but if you've lost that quality,
you haven't gained anything.

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"The Chaff."

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"Those who cannot love
the heavens or the Earth,

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beaten from the heavens and
the Earth, eat each other.

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Those who cannot love each
other, beaten from each other,

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eat themselves.

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Those who cannot
love themselves,

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beaten from themselves,
eat a terrible bread.

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Kneaded in the morning,
shrouded all day,

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baked in the dark, whose sweet
smell brings the chaff flying

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like empty hands through the
turning sky, night after night,

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calling with voices of
young birds to his wheat."

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