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Well, I'd like to end
with a little passage

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about the birth of a baby.

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"A black bear sits
alone in the twilight,

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nodding from side to
side, turning slowly

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around and around on himself,
scuffing the four footed circle

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into the earth.

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He sniffs the sweat
in the breeze.

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He understands a creature,
a death creature,

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watches from the
fringe of the trees.

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Finally, he understands,
I am no longer here.

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He himself, from the
fringe of the trees,

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watches a black bear get up,
eat a few flowers, trudge away,

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all his fur glistening in the
rain, and what glistening.

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Sancho Fergus, my boy child,
had such great shoulders.

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When he was born, his head came
out, the rest of him stuck.

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And he opened his eyes,
his head out there,

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all alone in the
room, he squinted

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with pained, barely unglued
eyes at the ninth month's blood

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splashing beneath him on
the floor and almost smiled,

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I thought, almost forgave
it all in advance.

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And when he came wholly forth,
I took him up in my hands,

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and bent over and smelled
the black, glistening fur

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of his head, as
empty space must have

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bent over the newborn
planet, and smelled

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the grasslands and the ferns."

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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