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Father	A
On these occasions the feelings surprise	B
Spontaneous as rain and they compel	C
Explicitness embarrassed eyes	B
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Son	D
Father you re not Polonius you re reticent	E
But sure I can already tell	C
The unction and falsetto of the sentiment	E
Which gratifies the facile mouth but springs	F
From no felt had and wholly known things	F
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Father	A
You must let me tell you what you fear	G
When you wake up from sleep still drunk with sleep	H
You are afraid of time and its slow drip	I
Like melting ice like smoke upon the air	J
In February s glittering sunny day	K
Your guilt is nameless because its name is time	L
Because its name is death But you can stop	M
Time as it dribbles from you drop by drop	M
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Son	D
But I thought time was full of promises	N
Even as now the emotion of going away	K
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Father	A
That is the first of all its menaces	O
The lure of a future different from today	K
All of us always are turning away	K
To the cinema and Asia All of us go	P
To one indeterminate nothing	Q
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Son	D
Must it be so	P
I question the sentiment you give to me	R
As premature not to be given learned alone	S
When experience shrinks upon the chilling bone	S
I would be sudden now and rash in joy	T
As if I lived forever the future my toy	T
Time is a dancing fire at twenty one	D
Singing and shouting and drinking to the sun	D
Powerful at the wheel of a motor car	U
Not thinking of death which is foreign and far	U
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Father	A
If time flowed from your will and were a feast	V
I would be wrong to question your zest	W
But each age betrays the same weak shape	X
Each moment is dying You will try to escape	X
From melting time and your dissipating soul	Y
By hiding your head in a warm and dark hole	Y
See the evasions which so many don	Z
To flee the guilt of time they become one	D
That is the one number among masses	N
The one anonymous in the audience	A2
The one expressionless in the subway	K
In the subway evening among so many faces	N
The one who reads the daily newspaper	A
Separate from actor and act a member	A
Of public opinion never involved	B2
Integrated in the revery of a fine cigar	U
Fleeing to childhood at the symphony concert	C2
Buying sleep at the drugstore grandeur	D2
At the band concert Hawaii	R
On the screen and everywhere a specious splendor	A
One when he is sad has something to eat	E2
An ice cream soda a toasted sandwich	F2
Or has his teeth fixed but can always retreat	E2
From the actual pain and dream of the rich	F2
This is what one does what one becomes	G2
Because one is afraid to be alone	S
Each with his own death in the lonely room	H2
But there is a stay You can stop	M
Time as it dribbles from you drop by drop	M
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Son	D
Now I am afraid What is there to be known	S
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Father	A
Guilt guilt of time nameless guilt	I2
Grasp firmly your fear thus grasping your self	J2
Your actual will Stand in mastery	R
Keeping time in you its terrifying mystery	R
Face yourself constantly go back	K2
To what you were your own history	R
You are always in debt Do not forget	L2
The dream postponed which would not quickly get	L2
Pleasure immediate as drink but takes	M2
The travail of building patience with means	N2
See the wart on your face and on your friend s face	O2
On your friend s face and indeed on your own face	O2
The loveliest woman sweats the animal stains	P2
The ideal which is with us like the sky	Q2
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Son	D
Because of that some laugh and others cry	Q2
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Father	A
Do not look past and turn away your face	O2
You cannot depart and take another name	R2
Nor go to sleep with lies Always the same	R2
Always the same self from the ashes of sleep	H
Returns with its memories always always	S2
The phoenix with eight hundred thousand memories	T2
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Son	D
What must I do that is most difficult	U2
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Father	A
You must meet your death face to face	O2
You must like one in an old play	K
Decide once for all your heart s place	O2
Love power and fame stand on an absolute	V2
Under the formless night and the brilliant day	K
The searching violin the piercing flute	V2
Absolute Venus and Caesar fade at that edge	W2
Hanging from the fiftieth story ledge	W2
Or diminished in bed when the nurse presses	N
Her sickening unguents and her cold compresses	N
When the news is certain surpassing fear	G
You touch the wound the priceless the most dear	G
There in death s shadow you comprehend	X2
The irreducible wish world without end	X2
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Son	D
I begin to understand the reason for evasion	D
I cannot partake of your difficult vision	D
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Father	A
Begin to understand the first decision	D
Hamlet is the example only dying	Q
Did he take up his manhood the dead s burden	D
Done with evasion done with sighing	Q
Done with revery	A
Decide that you are dying	Q
Because time is in you ineluctable	K
As shadow named by no syllable	K
Act in that shadow as if death were now	Y2
Your own self acts then then you know	P
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Son	D
My father has taught me to be serious	Z2
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Father	A
Be guilty of yourself in the full looking glass	A3

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