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And what I'll finish
with is also a new poem.

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It's called "The Hymn."

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"Had I died?

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Or was I very old and blind?

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Or was the dream this
hymn, this ecstatic paean,

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this woven music
of color and form

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of the sense of airy space?

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Was the dream showing forth
the power of memory, now, today

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or at any moment of need, or
the power of the inner eye

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distinct from memory,
imagination's power,

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greater than we remember, in
abeyance, the well in which we

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forget to dip our cups.

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At all events, that broad
hillside of trees all in leaf,

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trees of all kinds, all
hues of green, gold greens,

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blue greens, black greens, pure
and essential green greens,

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and warm and deep maroons
too, and the almost purple

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of smoke trees, all perceived
in their massive, rounded,

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composed forms across a
half mile of breezy air,

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yet with each leaf
rippling, gleaming, visible

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almost to vein and serration.

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At all events, that
sight brought with it,

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in dream, such gladness I
wept tears of gratitude,

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such as I've never
wept, only read

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that such tears sometimes of
shed, amazed to know this power

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was mine, a thing given to
see so well, though asleep,

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though blind, though
gone from the Earth."

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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