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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
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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
No one ever heard you complain	R
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You draw your head forward slowly from your little wimple	Q
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And set forward slow dragging on your four pinned toes Rowing slowly forward	S
Whither away small bird	S
Rather like a baby working its limbs	T
Except that you make slow ageless progress	U
And a baby makes none	H
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The touch of sun excites you	V
And the long ages and the lingering chill	Q
Make you pause to yawn	W
Opening your impervious mouth	X
Suddenly beak shaped and very wide like some suddenly gaping pincers	Y
Soft red tongue and hard thin gums	Z
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	A2
Or is sleep coming over you again	B2
The non life	C2
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You are so hard to wake	D
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Are you able to wonder	D2
Or is it just your indomitable will and pride of the first life	C2
Looking round	E2
And slowly pitching itself against the inertia	F2
Which had seemed invincible	Q
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The vast inanimate	G2
And the fine brilliance of your so tiny eye	N
Challenger	D2
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Nay tiny shell bird	S
What a huge vast inanimate it is that you must row against	H2
What an incalculable inertia	F2
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Challenger	D2
Little Ulysses fore runner	D2
No bigger than my thumb nail	Q
Buon viaggio	D
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All animate creation on your shoulder	D2
Set forth little Titan under your battle shield	I2
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The ponderous preponderate	I2
Inanimate universe	J2
And you are slowly moving pioneer you alone	A
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How vivid your travelling seems now in the troubled sunshine	K2
Stoic Ulyssean atom	L2
Suddenly hasty reckless on high toes	M2
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Voiceless little bird	I2
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	I2
Over the edge of all things	R2
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Traveller	D2
With your tail tucked a little on one side	I2
Like a gentleman in a long skirted coat	I2
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All life carried on your shoulder	D2
Invincible fore runner	D2

David Herbert Lawrence

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