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There are too many waterfalls here the crowded streams	A
hurry too rapidly down to the sea	B
and the pressure of so many clouds on the mountaintops	C
makes them spill over the sides in soft slow motion	D
turning to waterfalls under our very eyes	E
For if those streaks those mile long shiny tearstains	E
aren't waterfalls yet	F
in a quick age or so as ages go here	G
they probably will be	B
But if the streams and clouds keep travelling travelling	H
the mountains look like the hulls of capsized ships	E
slime hung and barnacled	F
	-
Think of the long trip home	I
Should we have stayed at home and thought of here	G
Where should we be today	F
Is it right to be watching strangers in a play	F
in this strangest of theatres	E
What childishness is it that while there's a breath of life	J
in our bodies we are determined to rush	K
to see the sun the other way around	F
The tiniest green hummingbird in the world	F
To stare at some inexplicable old stonework	H
inexplicable and impenetrable	L
at any view	M
instantly seen and always always delightful	L
Oh must we dream our dreams	E
and have them too	M
And have we room	N
for one more folded sunset still quite warm	O
	-
But surely it would have been a pity	F
not to have seen the trees along this road	F
really exaggerated in their beauty	F
not to have seen them gesturing	H
like noble pantomimists robed in pink	H
Not to have had to stop for gas and heard	F
the sad two noted wooden tune	P
of disparate wooden clogs	E
carelessly clacking over	Q
a grease stained filling station floor	R
In another country the clogs would all be tested	F
Each pair there would have identical pitch	S
A pity not to have heard	F
the other less primitive music of the fat brown bird	F
who sings above the broken gasoline pump	T
in a bamboo church of Jesuit baroque	H
three towers five silver crosses	E
	-
Yes a pity not to have pondered	F
blurr'dly and inconclusively	F
on what connection can exist for centuries	E
between the crudest wooden footwear	U
and careful and finicky	F
the whittled fantasies of wooden cages	E
Never to have studied history in	V
the weak calligraphy of songbirds' cages	E
And never to have had to listen to rain	W
so much like politicians' speeches	E
two hours of unrelenting oratory	F
and then a sudden golden silence	E
in which the traveller takes a notebook writes	E
	-
'Is it lack of imagination that makes us come	X
to imagined places not just stay at home	I
Or could Pascal have been not entirely right	F
about just sitting quietly in one's room	N
	-
Continent city country society	F
the choice is never wide and never free	F
And here or there No Should we have stayed at home	I
wherever that may be '	-

Elizabeth Bishop

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