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Oh, I just came out
to get my things.

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[LAUGHTER]

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One more.

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OK, one more.

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That makes a problem.

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Now this is a poem.

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I didn't know whether to read
a country poem or a city poem,

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and this is one which
is sort of both.

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It's called The Estuary.

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By day we paced the many
decks of the stone boat

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and at night we are turned
out in its high windows

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like stars of another side.

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Taste our mouths, we are
the salt of the Earth.

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Salt is memory.

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In storm and cloud we sleep in
fine rigging like riding birds.

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Taste our fingers each
with its own commandment.

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Day or night, it is harder to
know than we know, but longer.

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We are asleep over charts
at running Windows.

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We are asleep with
compasses in our hands.

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And at the bow of
the stone boat,

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the wave from the ends of
the Earth keeps breaking.

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