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@ THE HOUSE OF THE GOLDEN WINDOWS @
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@ by THEODORE ENSLIN @
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ABENDMUSIK
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1
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Eyes in memory
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turquoise and amber evoke
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still sound shot
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give over
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quiet house she said
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mine is not
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poor woman
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delivering what she had
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to this quiet house
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an outside quiet
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taken as turn
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in remove
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exultant unto gaiety
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quiet
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black tree jewel
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dumb cold
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wake froth glistering
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still sound shot
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give over
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an outside quiet
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delivering what she had
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poor woman
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to this house
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wake froth glistering
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mine is not
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turquoise and amber evoke
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eyes in memory
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taken as turn
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in remove
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give over
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exultant unto gaiety
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quiet
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dumb cold
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black tree jewel
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mine is not
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in remove
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quiet
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mine is not
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in remove
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is not mine
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evoke and amber evoke
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home to this quiet
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shot sound
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still give over
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delivering
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what she had
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poor woman
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glistering wake froth
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black tree
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jewel
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turquoise amber
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remove is quiet
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quiet house
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she said
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outside
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is not mine
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turn remove quiet
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eyes
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evoke
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meaning
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quiet give over
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delivering what she had
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in memory
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evoke
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quiet
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exultant unto gaiety
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mine is not
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she said
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quiet
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glistering wake froth
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jewel black tree
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taken as turn
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an outside quiet
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dumb cold
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she had
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turquoise and amber
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in remove
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mine is not
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quiet house
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still sound
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shot
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exultant unto gaiety
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in memory
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poor woman
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what she had
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2
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To some height
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climbing from
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down from
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up
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the air around
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appearing cloud
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length of day
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for movement
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night concealed
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reminiscence
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still
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creak and latch
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fit to imply
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safe journey
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mountain's distance
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appearing air
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the cloud around
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length for movement
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day appearing
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night concealed
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still
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safe journey
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distance
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up from
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down
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reminiscence
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creak and latch
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imply
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some height
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climbing
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appearing length for climbing
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concealed still creak
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latch fit
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safe journey
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distance
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mountain's appearing air
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to imply the length of day
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still
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distance
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cloud concealed
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appearing
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some height
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around climbing
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up
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to imply distances
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creak fit
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length latch
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safe
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distance concealed
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appearing cloud
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distance
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still
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mountain
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reminiscence
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journey
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length around
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down
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from air
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around mountain
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distance
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journey
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still
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for movement
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to some height
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climbing from
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down to up
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3
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Eisenach to Lubeck
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Bach to Buxtehude
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space of benevolence
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that walk
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as history
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not necessary
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should be/should not be
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the anecdote
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or music
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this at evensong
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level walking
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that both were there
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respect among
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colleagues
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Buxtehude to Bach
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the anecdote
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space of benevolence
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the daughter in marriage
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politely refused
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Lubeck to Eisenach
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walk
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benevolence a history
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should be
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the anecdote
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respect among colleagues
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both were there
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at evensong
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refused politely
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the daughter in marriage
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to Eisenach
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that walk
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as history
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colleagues in respect
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the anecdote
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should be/should not be
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this at evensong
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level walking
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or music
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the music of both men
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elder as arbiter
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struck dumb
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as history
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the anecdote
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stayed three months beyond his leave
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as recorded
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colleagues in respect
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at evensong
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married the `stranger maiden'
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an own cousin
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elder as arbiter
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stands dumb
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colleagues in respect
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the anecdote
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walking
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as history
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should not be
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three months beyond his leave
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married the `stranger maiden'
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as recorded
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as history
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not necessary
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should not be
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history
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space of benevolence
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that anecdote
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Eisenach to Lubeck
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to Eisenach
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level walking
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should be respect among colleagues
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refused
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the daughter in marriage
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married the `stranger maiden'
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an own cousin
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struck dumb
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colleagues in respect
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both were there
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at evensong
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Before dark
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make landfall
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that the sightings
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take account of reef
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current sweeping past
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estuary
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abrupt turn into the land
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light
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set to guide those
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of land and sea
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that home is reached
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in shadow
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paid chain
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anchored
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before dark
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that warmth come over
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sleep folowing
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paid chain
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anchored
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make landfall
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before dark
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take account of reef
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estuary
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abrupt turn into the land
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set to guide those
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of land and sea
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light
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that home is reached
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sleep following
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the warmth
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make landfall
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paid chain
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anchored
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in shadow
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lieu
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of land and sea
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the lee
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out of wind
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current sweeping past
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estuary
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take account of reef
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abrupt turn into land
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light set
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that home is reached
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paid chain
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anchored
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out of wind
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before dark
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that warmth come over
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the lee
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out of wind
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to guide those
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of land and sea
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in shadow
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reached before dark
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following
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make landfall
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estuary
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reef abrupt
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turn into land
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paid chain
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in lieu
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of land and sea
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following out the wind
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sweeping past
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turn into the land
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abrupt reef
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light
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that home is reached
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set
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to guide those of land and sea
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before dark
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the warmth following
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sleep
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landfall
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paid chain
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sightings
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take account of reef
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sleep
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before dark
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Curve implied
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taken from chorus
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at inception
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af delight
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want as being
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dear talk costs dear
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or bursts
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a song a
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curve and touch
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the nerve in blood
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ah lair
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the lay
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the test of love
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salt bite
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and fluid blood
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high
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no more are lost
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let loose
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let dust
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as curve
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the rounds away
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then night is laid
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curve chorus
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at inception lair
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ah
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the lay
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from chorus
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opposite
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to mingle
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lay
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high blood
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the test
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of love
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salt fluid
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bite
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caught up and turned
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ah
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men
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destroyers not the
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men who moved away
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as love loosed them
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lost
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bite
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inception's chorus
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burst
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dear talk costs dear
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the night inlaid
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curve rounds away
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no more are lost
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let dust
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the test of love
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burst
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love loosed
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a song a
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curve and touch
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implied
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ah
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want as being
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ah
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the lay
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the test of love
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dear talk costs dear
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the nerve as lair
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ah chorus
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want
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as being
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curve
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the rounds away
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in delight
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ah
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mingle
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ah
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men
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the night inlaid
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inception: June 1987
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February 2 - 6, 1988
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MORE THAN SMOKE THIS WATER
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plumed evidence
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substantial
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drop
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level
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as Herne's Oak lately discovered in alien country
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hart's head in tree bound to oak leathern leaf
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winter place
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evidence water
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elsewhere
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shafted
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dross flotsam upward against branch
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shoreward
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ice flake
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fretted twig plume
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drift against oak
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Herne's
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leaf bound
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waters shift
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drop evidence
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in
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level alien country
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past oak hart's
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shoreward
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plume twig
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ice flake
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alien
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lately discovered
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substantial
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drop
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level as Herne's Oak lately discovered
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leathern leaf elsewhere shafted dross
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winter place shift
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flotsam
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against branch
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in tree bound
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waters shift
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leaf bound drift past Herne's Oak as lately discovered
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leathern elsewhere dross shafted upward against branch
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fretted plume
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ice flake shoreward
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evidence water
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waters shift
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bound in alien country
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plumed lately
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discovered alien
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flotsam in tree
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as hart's head
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shift drift
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level
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leaf bound
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as
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ice flake
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Herne's Oak
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shoreward
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leaf bound
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flotsam against branch elsewhere waters shift
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upward
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drift past oak
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drop
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substantial
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evidence
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alien in tree leathern leaf
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twig plume dross
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hart's head winter shafted
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fretted oak
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lately shoreward
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*
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past
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past leaf
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past
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past water
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past
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past shift
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past oak
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past leathern leaf
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*
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Herne's Oak lately discovered bound to winter plume
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evidence water elsewhere winter place
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level evidence in alien country hart's head in tree
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against branch leathern leaf twig plume fretted
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shafted
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ice flake
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elsewhere drift
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shoreward
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substantial country
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lately alien
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shafted leaf
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as Herne's Oak
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lately discovered
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in alien country
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*
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elsewhere
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water
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dross
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elsewhere
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elsewhere
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flotsam
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drop against branch
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elsewhere
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ice flake
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plume
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shafted
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plumed
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leaf
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leathern
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bound to winter twig
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against branch
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upward flotsam
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ice flake
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shoreward flotsam dross shafted as water plume
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alien drift past substantial place oak branch
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shoreward shift
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*
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leaf bound branch water country twig place
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place fretted place alien leaf
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*
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against
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evidence
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against
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hart's head
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against
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tree
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against
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winter
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against
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country
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against
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alien
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against
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*
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bound to drift past water winter oak
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twig branch plumed shift leaf evidence elsewhere
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ice flake alien shoreward hart's head drop level
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lately
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against
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fretted
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plume
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substantial water
|
||
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lately alien
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||
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shafted twig
|
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as leathern winter
|
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*
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discovered
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||
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in oak
|
||
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discovered
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||
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hart's head bound
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||
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discovered
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||
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|
alien tree
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||
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discovered
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||
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discovered
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||
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water
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discovered
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elsewhere
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*
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ice
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drop
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ice
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||
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level
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ice
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shoreward
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||
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upward
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||
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ice
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||
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drift ice
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||
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|
past water evidence
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||
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|
ice place
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||
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flake drift
|
||
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past oak
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||
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ice
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||
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*
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||
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||
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oak past place drift shoreward branch shafted twig place
|
||
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|
country discovered in alien water leatern leaf bound
|
||
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|
evidence as Herne's Oak water substantial elsewhere place
|
||
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*
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||
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plume
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||
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|
water place
|
||
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|
plumed branch
|
||
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|
place
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||
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|
plume oak
|
||
|
|
branch twig leaf
|
||
|
|
plume
|
||
|
|
hart's head
|
||
|
|
tree plume
|
||
|
|
Herne's Oak
|
||
|
|
place
|
||
|
|
alien country
|
||
|
|
place
|
||
|
|
bound elsewhere
|
||
|
|
water plume
|
||
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|
place plume in tree
|
||
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*
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||
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smoke
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||
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|
inception: December 19, 1988
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||
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|
January 12 - 18, 1989
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Bowling Green, Ohio
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||
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@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
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|
SMALL PASTORAL DISPLACED
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||
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|
1
|
||
|
|
Introit
|
||
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|
|
||
|
|
Our gold
|
||
|
|
not common
|
||
|
|
gold as light
|
||
|
|
in noble frame
|
||
|
|
the window gold
|
||
|
|
it catches
|
||
|
|
from the east
|
||
|
|
the window's light
|
||
|
|
is in the west
|
||
|
|
at morning
|
||
|
|
from the west
|
||
|
|
the evening light
|
||
|
|
is east.
|
||
|
|
We see it
|
||
|
|
as an eye's catch
|
||
|
|
not to possess
|
||
|
|
we cannot
|
||
|
|
further than the rainbow
|
||
|
|
foot that holds the span
|
||
|
|
an arch
|
||
|
|
our gold
|
||
|
|
is common
|
||
|
|
to the elements
|
||
|
|
not common gold
|
||
|
|
as rain
|
||
|
|
in fire
|
||
|
|
in earth
|
||
|
|
in air and water
|
||
|
|
Symbol Sulfur
|
||
|
|
and elixir .
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
2
|
||
|
|
Idyll
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Iris
|
||
|
|
moon eye
|
||
|
|
netted
|
||
|
|
breathless pace
|
||
|
|
quiet pour
|
||
|
|
deflected light
|
||
|
|
sound
|
||
|
|
far off compass
|
||
|
|
only stir
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
3
|
||
|
|
Intermezzo
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
So rarely rain
|
||
|
|
these years
|
||
|
|
with the sound's
|
||
|
|
percussive fall
|
||
|
|
the seethe
|
||
|
|
a water stopped
|
||
|
|
along the eves
|
||
|
|
a quiet house
|
||
|
|
try evening the measure
|
||
|
|
that
|
||
|
|
the house is glad
|
||
|
|
it might be
|
||
|
|
as the presence
|
||
|
|
in the house
|
||
|
|
is of its measure
|
||
|
|
gladness.
|
||
|
|
So rarely
|
||
|
|
these years
|
||
|
|
the light's reflection
|
||
|
|
gild of panes
|
||
|
|
the morning and the evening
|
||
|
|
were
|
||
|
|
the same
|
||
|
|
of the same day
|
||
|
|
clearing of storm
|
||
|
|
clouds's interference
|
||
|
|
lessens
|
||
|
|
washed a gold
|
||
|
|
not common
|
||
|
|
goodwill
|
||
|
|
upsprung
|
||
|
|
the deed
|
||
|
|
the word
|
||
|
|
impressive
|
||
|
|
so rare
|
||
|
|
fire to seethe
|
||
|
|
the room's uncommon gold
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
4
|
||
|
|
Scherz
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Set the branch
|
||
|
|
say out no way
|
||
|
|
no saying
|
||
|
|
turn about
|
||
|
|
drip water
|
||
|
|
over fall
|
||
|
|
an even swaying
|
||
|
|
let it be a dancer
|
||
|
|
legs at scissor
|
||
|
|
bend
|
||
|
|
how the branch
|
||
|
|
might fall
|
||
|
|
come uppance
|
||
|
|
clear to be
|
||
|
|
the shadow
|
||
|
|
still no way.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
5
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Just as the oars lie hushed above the water
|
||
|
|
so the water quitted below the lapstrake hull
|
||
|
|
where shadow flattens wave along the drift
|
||
|
|
not always memory the surge is on
|
||
|
|
slips oil the trace a little closer
|
||
|
|
wake that stirs a hand in tending
|
||
|
|
balanced that the oars are ready
|
||
|
|
should a wind arise and break this dream
|
||
|
|
the landfall shore is raised a bit
|
||
|
|
to ride the sea and all outriders rigged
|
||
|
|
the news a bird's cry following
|
||
|
|
on doom of bell the steadied buoy
|
||
|
|
above the shoal and sun to rise again
|
||
|
|
the gilded windows island homestead
|
||
|
|
stead the house to follow there the drifting.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
6
|
||
|
|
Recitative
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Suffer an elixir that the gild is common oh uncommon
|
||
|
|
gold the window is the best as seen at distance house of
|
||
|
|
the golden windows wind's eye open to a sweep of air that
|
||
|
|
dries what is not past the water eye will lighten it
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
7
|
||
|
|
Air
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Like a bell
|
||
|
|
a bell
|
||
|
|
its own likeness
|
||
|
|
tuned
|
||
|
|
the metal
|
||
|
|
felt the stop
|
||
|
|
the wave
|
||
|
|
long stopping
|
||
|
|
ursprach
|
||
|
|
upsprung
|
||
|
|
the gold in
|
||
|
|
lightness
|
||
|
|
how a bell
|
||
|
|
is like
|
||
|
|
it fastens
|
||
|
|
on the dome of air
|
||
|
|
down
|
||
|
|
and farther
|
||
|
|
down
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
8
|
||
|
|
Leading Tones
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
elixir
|
||
|
|
common
|
||
|
|
is uncommon
|
||
|
|
gild
|
||
|
|
the window
|
||
|
|
at a distance
|
||
|
|
pane of east
|
||
|
|
or of west
|
||
|
|
sea mew
|
||
|
|
calling
|
||
|
|
over island
|
||
|
|
once said
|
||
|
|
unspoken
|
||
|
|
raise to horizon
|
||
|
|
time ripened
|
||
|
|
the bell
|
||
|
|
at angle
|
||
|
|
follows wake
|
||
|
|
in furrow
|
||
|
|
a loneliness
|
||
|
|
that sound
|
||
|
|
of doing
|
||
|
|
light essence
|
||
|
|
gold or sulfur
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
9
|
||
|
|
Resolution
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Let it not
|
||
|
|
impersonal
|
||
|
|
flare of lightness
|
||
|
|
not common
|
||
|
|
gold as light
|
||
|
|
the noble frame
|
||
|
|
of window
|
||
|
|
gold
|
||
|
|
caught east and west
|
||
|
|
morning and evening
|
||
|
|
of the day
|
||
|
|
the same
|
||
|
|
percussive
|
||
|
|
wavelength
|
||
|
|
lap of bell
|
||
|
|
washed a gold
|
||
|
|
not common
|
||
|
|
rainbow arch
|
||
|
|
an arch as rain in fire
|
||
|
|
earth in water
|
||
|
|
symbol elixir
|
||
|
|
gold and sulfur
|
||
|
|
eye caught
|
||
|
|
iris moon
|
||
|
|
silence
|
||
|
|
hull and drift
|
||
|
|
steadied buoy to shore
|
||
|
|
hush of water drip
|
||
|
|
Let it not
|
||
|
|
impersonal
|
||
|
|
let it
|
||
|
|
not impersonal
|
||
|
|
light from window
|
||
|
|
unto window
|
||
|
|
gild a day
|
||
|
|
another
|
||
|
|
as another day.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
inception: January 14, 1989
|
||
|
|
January 25 - 30, 1989
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
from THE HOUSE OF GOLDEN WINDOWS, published by
|
||
|
|
Light and Dust Books. Copyright (C) 1994 by
|
||
|
|
Theodore Enslin.
|