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I think I'll read one more
prose piece than I meant to.

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So that's-- but this
one is called Crusade.

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Peter the Hermit awoke in a
cave above a cold valley, rain.

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He was a hardier man than
I am though I profess

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to be hardier than I am.

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What did Peter the Hermit
profess hardy as he was?

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Sometimes he slept standing.

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From soft spring meadows,
from fishy streams, and shade,

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and forests full of
creatures before tapestries,

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he called those who were
born to all that round

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life, the oppressed and
oppressors of that moment,

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maker and taker, and made
them listen after a long time

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though at first
they ignored him.

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Either their beasts were fat
and they themselves happy

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at table and in bed, and
hoping to get richer,

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yet fearing for what they had
fire, imminence of disease,

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suddenness of death,
urgency of life to come

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and at the same time
bored and believing

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that there was something else.

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Or they were full of
Black bile hacking

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and hewing at each
other or both.

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He persisted in drawing
their attentions

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to their own pain,
joy, and hope,

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and linking what they dreaded
to what they concealed.

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When they came to him, he told
the men to leave everything,

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the women to send them
away to set free a city

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that none of them had ever
seen, which had been theirs

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for 1,000 years, and in which
they would all live forever

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once they had died.

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He convinced them
with their bad dreams.

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He invented visions of bliss
which they did not want to deny

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were theirs.

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They followed him
through deliberate

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sleep not daring
to wait, contriving

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new theories of possession,
imagining new fortifications,

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carving a long, wet red road
for the ox cart of knowledge

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it is written, they
who could not read.

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Some came back and were buried
at home having seen the city.

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Nobody knows much about him.

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You either believe or you don't.

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There is only the cave he
is said to have slept in.

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Nobody called him
Peter, nobody woke him.

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He may never have slept at all.

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