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I'm going to read another
couple of poems that, in a way,

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catch on the same theme.

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I have, I have three
poems called "The Past."

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The first one was in
A Door in the Hive.

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"Somewhere married
and in love, we

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walked through streets
planted with linden trees.

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There were ramparts, buttresses,
ancient fragments bonded

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with newer masonry that was old
to the warmth of the day just

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ending, stretched itself
on the stones a golden dog.

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People were strolling.

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There were no cars to
speak of, and we were only

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passing through.

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What chance imperative held us
on course to work what train.

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Nothing I can remember, no
better city, quiet avenues,

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lamps coming on, Sky
still full of light.

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I can't remember
arriving nor leaving,

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and even while we
were there, it seems

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we were somewhere
else inattentive.

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But the lindens were blossoming.

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Their perfume,
mysterious pianissimo,

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filled the whole town.

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Every few years, that
remembrance briefly returns

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as if a fragment of dream,
but I know it was history,

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a bit of my life, a bit of
the life of Europe, the past.

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We failed to linger
as if the lindens only

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spoke over this gulf of time."

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