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And it was written in England.

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Churchyard.

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Somerset Maugham
said a professional

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was someone who could do
his best work when he didn't

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particularly feel like it.

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There was a picture
of him in the paper,

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a face lined deeply and
morally like Auden's,

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an old embittered tortoise,
the corners of the mouth

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turned down resolutely
to express the idea

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that everything in
life is small change.

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And what he said when he
died, "I'm all through.

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The clever young men don't
write essays about me."

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In the fleshly world, the
red tulip in garden sunlight

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is almost touched by shadow
and begins to close up.

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Someone asked me yesterday,
"Are deer monogamous?"

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I thought of
something I had read.

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When deer in the
British Isles were

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forced to live in the open
because of heavy forest,

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it stunted them.

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The red deer who lived
in the Scottish Highlands

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1,000 years ago were a third
larger than the present animal.

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This morning walking into the
village to pick up the car,

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I thought of a roof where
I have slept in the summer

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in New York, pigeons in the
early morning sailing up

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5th Avenue, and silence in which
you imagine the empty canyons

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the light hasn't reached yet.

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I was standing on the high
street in Shelford village

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outside the fussy
little tea shop.

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And I thought a poem with
the quick lice ridden

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pigeons in it might end: this
is a dawn song in Manhattan.

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I hurried home to write it.

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And as I passed the churchyard,
school was letting out.

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Luke was walking
toward me smiling.

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He thought I'd come to meet him.

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That was when I
remembered the car

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when he was walking toward
me through the spring

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flowers in the 18th
century gravestones,

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his arms full of
school drawings he

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hoped not to drop in the mud.

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