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Before he wrote a poem he learned the measure	A
That living in the future gives a farm	B
Propinquity of mules and cows the charmed	C
Insouciance of hens the fellowship	D
At dawn of seed time and of harvest time	E
But when high noon gave way to evening and	F
The fences lay bent shadows on the crops	G
And pastures to the yellowing trees he felt	H
The presences he felt when over rocks	I
Through pools and where it wears the bank the stream	J
Ran bright and dark at once itself its shadow	K
And suffered in all he knew the antagonists	L
Related in the Bible in himself	M
And every new condition from the beginning	N
As in the autumn leaf and summer prime	E
Therefore he chose to live the only game	O
Worthy of repetition in the likeness	P
Of someone like himself a race of which	Q
He was the changing distances and ground	R
The runners and the goal that runs away	S
Forever into time or like two players	T
At odds in white and black their dignities	T
Triumphs refused or losses unredeemed	U
For the one that it be ever of the pure	V
Intention that he witnessed in the high	W
Stained windows of King's Chapel ancestral stories	T
The old above the new like pages shining	N
From an essential book he taught his mind	X
To imitate the meditation sovereign	Y
In verse and prose of those who shared with him	Z
Intelligence of beauty good and truth	A2
As one unchanging and unchangeable	B2
Disinterested excitement through a sentence	T
Their joy and passion For the other as	T
A venturer asleep he went among	C2
The voiceless and unvisionary many	D2
Like one who offers blood to know his fate	E2
Or hold his twin again deep in the midnight	F2
Baths of New Orleans on its plural beds	T
And on the secret banks beside its river	A
The many who anonymous as he was	T
Uncannily resembled him appearing	N
Immortal in a finitude of mirrors	T
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But when the sudden force of the disease	T
Tossed him in a new garment on the bed	G2
Where he had wakened mornings as a child	H2
Despised by all the neighbors helpless blind	X
And vulnerable to every life he listened	F
Intensely to the roosters mules and cows	T
As well as to the voices of the desk	I2
The chair the books and pictures pastures and fields	T
The tree of every season the age of seas	T
And on its surge the age of galaxies	T
The bells within the spires of Cambridge bodies	T
And faces revealed or hidden in the flow	B2
All that we knew or could imagine joined	J2
Together in the sound the stream flows through	K2
As witness of itself in every change	L2
Each trusting in its continuities	T
All turning in a final radiant shell	B2
Then on his darkened eye he saw himself	M
A compact disk awhirl played by the light	F2
He came from and was ready to reenter	A
But not before he chose the way to go	B2
And so it was before his death he spoke	M2
The poem that is his best the final letter	A
To take to that old country as a passport	N2

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