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This next poem the
title of it is--

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it's entitled ''Fundevogel'.'

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And there's a note on the poem,
it's in Grimms' Fairy Tales.

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There is a sentence that
reads, the foundling

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was called Fundevogel because
it had been found by a bird.

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"Fundevogel."

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My first wife was a wren, and
I, the version of some garage.

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Up past the creek beneath the
forest, she whispered eternity.

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And cars drove softly
through the yard.

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It was always on the porch,
in rain, when we first

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heard the demented fire climb
secretly into the cellars.

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So there were secrets
there we decided to fear.

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Each winter, I desired the
porches in their story.

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Patches, wood and
white railings.

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And the children who
would have to hang

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from the hands of
other children.

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It was over the creek, and
made my wife think twice

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before taking the bridge.

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One day, a child chased me
a good ways with a stick,

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before he turned away.

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How far had I gone
into the forest?

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With their hands beneath
the fire, when I found

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her raining up the road.

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Had the child changed angrily,
for some half desire?"

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