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This is called Vision.

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The vision will come.

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The truth be revealed.

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But not even its vaguest
nature you now know.

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Our truth about what?

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But deep in a similar dark,
black conviction irregularly

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gleams like fox-fire
in sump-woods where,

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in distance, lynx-scream
or direful stammer of owl

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freezes the blood in a
metaphysical shudder,

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which might be the first
feather fine brush of grace.

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Such an event may come
with night rain on roof,

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season changing
and bed too wide;

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or, say when the
past is defogged,

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and the old tracks of
folly show fleetingly

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clear before
rationalization again

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descends, as mist from seaward.

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Or when the shadow of pastness
teasingly lifts and you

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recollect having caught--

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When?-- a glint of the nature
of virtue like the electrically

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exposed white of a
flicker's rump feathers

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at the moment it flashes
for the black thicket.

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Or when, even, in a
section of the city where

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two acquaintance--

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where no acquaintance
would ever pass,

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you watch snowflakes
slash automobile lights

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as you move toward the
first illicit meeting,

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naturally at a crummy cafe.

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Your pace slows.

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You see her slip from the
cab, dash for the door,

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dark fur coat colllar
up, head down.

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Inside, as you
order two highballs,

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all eyes seem to focus on you.

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Drinks come.

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But there is nothing to say.

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Hands do, damply, clasp--

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though no bed yet.

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Each stares into
the other's eyes.

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Desire like despair,
and doom grows

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slow, and fat, and dark
like a burgundy begonia.

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Soon, you will watch
the pale silken flash

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of well-turned ankles
beneath dark fur,

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as she hurries away
on her stolen time,

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cab hunting, and the
future scarcely breathes.

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Your chest is a great clot.

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Perhaps then.

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Oh, no.

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It may not happen than, in fact,
until a black orderly, white

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coated on rubber soles,

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enters at 5:00 AM the
hospital room, suds and razor

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in hand, to shave with
no word of greeting,

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the area the surgeon
will penetrate.

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The robot departs.

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No one comes yet.

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Do not give up hope.

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There is still time.

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Watch dawn blur the window.

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Can it be that vision has,
long back, already come?

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And you just didn't
recognize it?

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