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We just had dinner, and I was in
a conversation about paradises.

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I've always wanted to know
what people's paradises are.

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If they could happen,
what would they choose?

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So I decided I'd like
to read you a poem.

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It's about that.

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And if there are
any freshmen here,

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I want to tell you that
Perugino was a famous Italian

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Renaissance painter.

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He was the teacher of Raffaello.

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Oh, my client's here.

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And he invented the landscape
that became very famous.

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It's a landscape of Umbria,
the country around Perugia,

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which is where I
first fell in love.

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So it's all mixed
up together for me.

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And in the background
of his paintings,

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you will see this lovely,
sweet, dreamlike Italian vision

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of the good world.

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And you see it-- like with
the Mona Lisa-- you see it

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over, say, the
Madonna's shoulder,

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past the Magi's
outstretched hand.

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It keeps turning up.

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And the poem goes like this.

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In Perugino we have
sometimes seen our country.

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Incidental, beyond the Madonna,
the mild hills and the valleys

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that we have always
almost remembered,

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the light that explains our
secret conviction of exile.

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That light, those
hills, that valley,

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that country where
people finally

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touch as we would touch,
reaching with hand and body

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and mouth, weeping,
and do not meet.

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The small perfect
trees of loneliness,

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dark with our longing
against the light.

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