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Towards the end of
this books, I started

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writing poems
which sounded to me

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somewhat different than the
ones I'd been writing before.

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They were shorter.

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Often the sentences are shorter.

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And in almost all of them
although not all of them,

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either a heart or a lion or
sometimes both seem to appear.

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And so I'll read
you a few of those

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and then move into the next
book, which obviously since it's

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called The Lives of the Heart,
this obsession continued

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to carry on.

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This is the first one
of them that arrived.

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It's called "The Weigh-in."

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The heart's reasons
seen clearly.

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Even the hardest will carry
its whip marks and sadness

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and must be forgiven.

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As the drought-starved eland
forgives the drought-starved

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lion who finally takes her,
enters willingly, then,

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the life she cannot refuse
and is lion, is fed,

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and does not remember the other.

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So few grains of happiness
measured against all the dark

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and still the scales balance.

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The world asks of us only
the strength we have,

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and we give it.

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Then it asks more,
and we give it.