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And I will end with
another spring cricket poem

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because I think the
spring cricket always

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should get the last word.

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There's an epigraph to
the poem from the opera

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Cendrillon, "Stay by the
hearth, little cricket."

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"Postlude"

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You prefer me invisible, no more
than a crisp salute far away

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from your silks and
firewood and woolens.

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Out of sight, I'm merely an
annoyance, one slim obstinate

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wrinkle and night's
deepening trance.

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When sleep fails, you wish me
shushed and back in my hole.

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As usual, you're not listening.

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Time stops only if you stop
long enough to hear it passing.

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This is my business.

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I've got 10 weeks
left to croon through.

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What you hear is a
lifetime of song.

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Thank you.

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[CLAPPING]

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