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You know what it is to be born alone	A
Baby tortoise	B
The first day to heave your feet little by little from the shell	C
Not yet awake	D
And remain lapsed on earth	E
Not quite alive	F
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A tiny fragile half animate bean	G
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To open your tiny beak mouth that looks as if it would never open	H
Like some iron door	I
To lift the upper hawk beak from the lower base	J
And reach your skinny little neck	K
And take your first bite at some dim bit of herbage	L
Alone small insect	M
Tiny bright eye	N
Slow one	H
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To take your first solitary bite	O
And move on your slow solitary hunt	P
Your bright dark little eye	N
Your eye of a dark disturbed night	O
Under its slow lid tiny baby tortoise	B
So indomitable	Q
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No one ever heard you complain	R
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You draw your head forward slowly from your little wimple	Q
And set forward slow dragging on your four pinned toes	S
Rowing slowly forward	T
Whither away small bird	T
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Rather like a baby working its limbs	U
Except that you make slow ageless progress	V
And a baby makes none	H
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The touch of sun excites you	W
And the long ages and the lingering chill	Q
Make you pause to yawn	X
Opening your impervious mouth	Y
Suddenly beak shaped and very wide like some suddenly gaping pincers	Z
Soft red tongue and hard thin gums	A2
Then close the wedge of your little mountain front	P
Your face baby tortoise	B
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Do you wonder at the world as slowly you turn your head in its wimple	Q
And look with laconic black eyes	B2
Or is sleep coming over you again	C2
The non life	D2
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You are so hard to wake	D
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Are you able to wonder	E2
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Or is it just your indomitable will and pride of the first life	D2
Looking round	F2
And slowly pitching itself against the inertia	G2
Which had seemed invincible	Q
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The vast inanimate	H2
And the fine brilliance of your so tiny eye	N
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Challenger	E2
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Nay tiny shell bird	T
What a huge vast inanimate it is that you must row against	I2
What an incalculable inertia	G2
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Challenger	E2
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Little Ulysses fore runner	E2
No bigger than my thumb nail	Q
Buon viaggio	D
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All animate creation on your shoulder	E2
Set forth little Titan under your battle shield	J2
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The ponderous preponderate	J2
Inanimate universe	K2
And you are slowly moving pioneer you alone	A
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How vivid your travelling seems now in the troubled sunshine	L2
Stoic Ulyssean atom	M2
Suddenly hasty reckless on high toes	S
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Voiceless little bird	J2
Resting your head half out of your wimple	Q
In the slow dignity of your eternal pause	N2
Alone with no sense of being alone	A
And hence six times more solitary	O2
Fulfilled of the slow passion of pitching through immemorial ages	P2
Your little round house in the midst of chaos	Q2
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Over the garden earth	E
Small bird	J2
Over the edge of all things	R2
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Traveller	E2
With your tail tucked a little on one side	J2
Like a gentleman in a long skirted coat	J2
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All life carried on your shoulder	E2
Invincible fore runner	E2
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The Cross the Cross	S2
Goes deeper in than we know	T2
Deeper into life	D2
Right into the marrow	T2
And through the bone	A

D. H. Lawrence (david Herbert Richards)

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