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And lastly: "In the evening,
we shall be examined on love."

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It's a title I
robbed shamelessly

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from Saint John of the Cross--

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was a Spanish mystic.

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In the evening, we shall
be examined on love,

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and it won't be multiple choice.

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Though some of us would
prefer it that way.

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Neither will it be
essay, which tempts

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us to run on when we
should be sticking

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to the point, if not together.

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In the evening, there
shall be implications.

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Our fear will change
the complications.

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No cheating will be told.

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It will try to figure the cost
of being true to ourselves.

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In the evening, when the sky has
turned that certain blue, blue

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of exam books, blue of
no more daily evasions,

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we shall climb the hill
as the light empties,

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and park our tired bodies
on a bench above the city,

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and try to fill in the blanks.

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And we won't be tested
like defendants on trial,

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cross-examined till one of us
breaks down, guilty as charged.

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No.

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In the evening, after the
day has refused to testify,

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we shall be examined on love
like students who don't even

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recall signing up for the course
and now must take their orals,

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forced to speak for
once from the heart,

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and not off the
top of their heads.

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And when the evening
is over and it's late,

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the student body asleep,
even the great teachers

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retired for the night,
we shall stay up

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and run back over the
questions each in our own way.

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What's true, what's false,
what unknown quantity will

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balance the equation?

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What it would mean
years from now

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to look back and
know we did not fail?

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I thank you very much.

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Thank you.

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