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"House with an Attic."

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Nothing happens again.

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Although I have spent
too many candles

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and faintly lit
rooms teaching you,

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while the ocean is teaching
the gravity of its charges

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and urchins, who even we have
greeted in their youngness.

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I find not so much a thief as
a keeper of the past in you,

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where the end holds no
light, when the light dies

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and fog smudges over
the night windows,

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the windows at
night like a thumb.

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And though you are
ill and I am too,

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I will happen to offer
you a dark gentian

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as they are dark, as the idiot
teaching of a few poor ledgers

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is dark, and there are
holes there as well.

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Speak kindly when wind
escapes the water,

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so those inland may draw
water from the river well.

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And if there is emptiness, allow
each the forehead and the hand

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in winter, so we may eat
and look up not so darkly.

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They are the summer places
of collapse, the others

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we watch with their--

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they have given us every candle
to see the ledger under light.

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So many names are missing--

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Monday, fact, Tuesday, fact.

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And just beyond the
water is the house

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with an attic which
greets us with its idiocy.

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