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Three poems and we'll be done.

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This first poem is
called "The Waters."

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"If you stare out over the
waters on a bright day when

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the wind is down and the waters
move on to groom themselves,

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turning their beautiful
faces a little

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to guess how the light looks
on them this way, and that.

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If you hear them, contented
as they seem to be,

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and quiet, so that they
seethe, like a slow fire,

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and their long syllable
is not broken into music.

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And if you should
carry them with you

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like the memory of
impossible errands

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and not know what
you carry, nor how,

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so that you feel inelevably
mute, as if from birth, then

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you will be apt for
speech, for books,

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and you'll be glib
though it torment you,

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and you'll rise to the
sacraments of memory

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and lie down unable to
forget what you can't name,

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and the wine in your
glass will be ink."

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