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And if you say�察�as I've no doubt you will before I finish��
That you have tried unceasingly�察�with all your might and main��
To teach me�察�knowing more than I of what it was I needed��
Don't think�察�with all you may have thought�察�that you have tried in vain��
For you have taught me more than hides in all the shelves of knowledge
Of how little you found that's in me and was in me all along。
I believed�察�if I intruded nothing on you that I cared for��
I'd be half as much as horses�察 �and it seems that I was wrong��
I believed there was enough of earth in me�察�with all my nonsense
Over things that made you sleepy�察�to keep something still awake��
But you taught me soon to read my book�察�and God knows I have read it
Ages longer than an angel would have read it for your sake。
I have said that you must open other doors than I have entered��
But I wondered while I said it if I might not be obscure。
Is there anything in all your pedigrees and inventories
With a value more elusive than a dollar's�拭 �Are you sure
That if I starve another year for you I shall be stronger
To endure another like it and another till I'm dead�拭�
;Has your tame cat sold a picture�拭 �or more likely had a windfall��
Or for God's sake�察�what's broke loose�拭 �Have you a bee´hive in your head��
A little more of this from you will not be easy hearing。
Do you know that�拭 �Understand it�察�if you do�察�for if you won't。 。 。 。
What the devil are you saying� �Make believe you never said it��
And I'll say I never heard it。 。 。 。 Oh�察�you。 。 。 。 If you。 。 。 。;
;If I don't�拭�
;There are men who say there's reason hidden somewhere in a woman��
But I doubt if God himself remembers where the key was hung。;
;He may not�察�for they say that even God himself is growing。
I wonder if he makes believe that he is growing young��
I wonder if he makes believe that women who are giving
All they have in holy loathing to a stranger all their lives
Are the wise ones who build houses in the Bible。 。 。 。;
;Stop you devil� �
;。 。 。 Or that souls are any whiter when their bodies are called wives。
If a dollar's worth of gold will hoop the walls of hell together��
Why need heaven be such a ruin of a place that never was��
And if at last I lied my starving soul away to nothing��
Are you sure you might not miss it�拭 �Have you come to such a pass
That you would have me longer in your arms if you discovered
That I made you into someone else。 。 。 。 Oh� � 。 。 Well�察�there are
worse ways。
But why aim it at my feet unless you fear you may be sorry。 。 。 。
There are many days ahead of you。;
;I do not see those days。;
;I can see them。 Granted even I am wrong�察�there are the children。
And are they to praise their father for his insight if we die��
Do you hear them�拭 �Do you hear them overhead the children singing��
Do you hear them�拭 �Do you hear the children�拭�
;Damn the children� �
;Why��
What have THEY done�拭 � 。 。 Well�察�then�察 �do it。 。 。 。 Do it now��
and have it over。;
;Oh�察�you devil� � 。 。 Oh�察�you。 。 。 。;
;No�察�I'm not a devil�察�I'm a prophet
One who sees the end already of so much that one end more
Would have now the small importance of one other small illusion��
Which in turn would have a welcome where the rest have gone before。
But if I were you�察�my fancy would look on a little farther
For the glimpse of a release that may be somewhere still in sight。
Furthermore�察�you must remember those two hundred invitations
For the dancing after dinner。 We shall have to shine tonight。
We shall dance�察�and be as happy as a pair of merry spectres��
On the grave of all the lies that we shall never have to tell��
We shall dance among the ruins of the tomb of our endurance��
And I have not a doubt that we shall do it very well。
There� �I'm glad you've put it back�察�for I don't like it。
Shut the drawer now。
No no don't cancel anything。 I'll dance until I drop。
I can't walk yet�察�but I'm going to。 。 。 。 Go away somewhere��
and leave me。 。 。 。
Oh�察�you children� �Oh�察�you children� � 。 。 God�察�will they never stop� �
Tasker Norcross
;Whether all towns and all who live in them
So long as they be somewhere in this world
That we in our complacency call ours
Are more or less the same�察�I leave to you。
I should say less。 Whether or not�察�meanwhile��
We've all two legs and as for that�察�we haven't
There were three kinds of men where I was born��
The good�察�the not so good�察�and Tasker Norcross。
Now there are two kinds。;
;Meaning�察�as I divine��
Your friend is dead�察─�I ventured。
Ferguson��
Who talked himself at last out of the world
He censured�察�and is therefore silent now��
Agreed indifferently�此 �My friends are dead
Or most of them。;
;Remember one that isn't�察�
I said�察�protesting。 ;Honor him for his ears��
Treasure him also for his understanding。;
Ferguson sighed�察�and then talked on again��
;You have an overgrown alacrity
For saying nothing much and hearing less��
And I've a thankless wonder�察�at the start��
How much it is to you that I shall tell
What I have now to say of Tasker Norcross��
And how much to the air that is around you。
But given a patience that is not averse
To the slow tragedies of haunted men
Horrors�察�in fact�察�if you've a skilful eye
To know them at their firesides�察�or out walking�察 �
;Horrors�察─�I said�察 �are my necessity��
And I would have them�察�for their best effect��
Always out walking。;
Ferguson frowned at me��
;The wisest of us are not those who laugh
Before they know。 Most of us never know
Or the long toil of our mortality
Would not be done。 Most of us never know
And there you have a reason to believe
In God�察�if you may have no other。 Norcross��
Or so I gather of his infirmity��
Was given to know more than he should have known��
And only God knows why。 See for yourself
An old house full of ghosts of ancestors��
Who did their best�察�or worst�察�and having done it��
Died honorably�察�and each with a distinction
That hardly would have been for him that had it��
Had honor failed him wholly as a friend。
Honor that is a friend begets a friend。
Whether or not we love him�察�still we have him��
And we must live somehow by what we have��
Or then we die。 If you say chemistry��
Then you must have your molecules in motion��
And in their right abundance。 Failing either��
You have not long to dance。 Failing a friend��
A genius�察�or a madness�察�or a faith
Larger than desperation�察�you are here
For as much longer than you like as may be。
Imagining now�察�by way of an example��
Myself a more or less remembered phantom
Again�察�I should say less how many times
A day should I come back to you�拭 �No answer。
Forgive me when I seem a little careless��
But we must have examples�察�or be lucid
Without them�察�and I question your adherence
To such an undramatic narrative
As this of mine�察�without the personal hook。;
;A time is given in Ecclesiastes
For divers works�察─�I told him。 ;Is there one
For saying nothing in return for nothing��
If not�察�there should be。; I could feel his eyes��
And they were like two cold inquiring points
Of a sharp metal。 When I looked again��
To see them shine�察�the cold that I had felt
Was gone to make way for a smouldering
Of lonely fire that I�察�as I knew then��
Could never quench with kindness or with lies。
I should have done whatever there was to do
For Ferguson�察�yet I could not have mourned
In honesty for once around the clock
The loss of him�察�for my sake or for his��
Try as I might�察�nor would his ghost approve��
Had I the power and the unthinking will
To make him tread again without an aim
The road that was behind him and without
The faith�察�or friend�察�or genius�察�or the madness
That he contended was imperative。
After a silence that had been too long��
;It may be quite as well we don't�察─�he said��
;As well�察�I mean�察�that we don't always say it。
You know best what I mean�察�and I suppose
You might have said it better。 What was that��
Incorrigible�拭 �Am I incorrigible��
Well�察�it's a word�察�and a word has its use��
Or�察�like a man�察�it will soon have a grave。
It's a good word enough。 Incorrigible��
May be�察�for all I know�察�the word for Norcross。
See for yourself that house of his again
That he called home�此 �An old house�察�painted white��
Square as a box�察�and chillier than a tomb
To look at or to live in。 There were trees
Too many of them�察�if such a thing may be
Before it and around it。 Down in front
There was a road�察�a railroad�察�and a river��
Then there were hills behind it�察�and more trees。
The thing would fairly stare at you through trees��
Like a pale inmate out of a barred window
With a green shade half down�察�and I dare say
People who passed have said�此 �There's where he lives。
We know him�察�but we do not seem to know
That we remember any good of him��
Or any evil that is interesting。
There you have all we know and all we care。'
They might have said it in all sorts of ways��
And then�察�if they perceived a cat�察�they might
Or might not have remembered what they said。
The cat might have a personality
And maybe the same one the Lord left out
Of Tasker Norcross�察�who�察�for lack of it��
Saw the same sun go down year after year��
All which at last was my discovery。
And only mine�察�so far as evidence
Enlightens one more darkness。 You have known
All round you�察�all your days�察�men who are nothing
Nothing�察�I mean�察�so far as time tells yet
Of any other need it has of them
Than to make sextons hardy but no less
Are to
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