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This next one is called "Tree
of Two Birds." A serious poem,

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but not gloomy.

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It's about two birds singing in
October in Minneapolis as if it

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was going to be spring,
which, of course, it wasn't.

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And I just heard from
my brother and his wife

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by tape, we correspond
by tape, and they

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had been in Minneapolis
two years before.

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So I just thought of them and
took courage from the two birds

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singing so jauntily
when that terrible cold

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was about to come.

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Tree of two birds.

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Tree of two birds,
tree of two birds.

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All winter long I've
heard your song;

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and my heart has been
like a tree of two birds.

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When it was cold,
cold, cold; when

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the snow flew, when the clouds
rolled down, down, down.

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Such song from the bare
branch, sweet throat,

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sweet throat, all winter long.

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Even the darkest days, how you
plant your notes in my heart.

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Like a fountain, green
fountain, in winter,

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fountain with my friends.

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Like my family, singing to
me, o brother, o sister, bird,

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from the twigs of winter.

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Tree of two birds,
tree of two birds,

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feeding me with your
song all winter long.