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The mountain held the town as in a shadow	A
I saw so much before I slept there once	B
I noticed that I missed stars in the west	C
Where its black body cut into the sky	D
Near me it seemed I felt it like a wall	E
Behind which I was sheltered from a wind	F
And yet between the town and it I found	G
When I walked forth at dawn to see new things	H
Were fields a river and beyond more fields	I
The river at the time was fallen away	J
And made a widespread brawl on cobble stones	K
But the signs showed what it had done in spring	L
Good grass land gullied out and in the grass	M
Ridges of sand and driftwood stripped of bark	N
I crossed the river and swung round the mountain	O
And there I met a man who moved so slow	A
With white faced oxen in a heavy cart	P
It seemed no hand to stop him altogether	Q
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What town is this I asked	R
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This Lunenburg	N
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Then I was wrong the town of my sojourn	S
Beyond the bridge was not that of the mountain	O
But only felt at night its shadowy presence	B
Where is your village Very far from here	T
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There is no village only scattered farms	U
We were but sixty voters last election	O
We can't in nature grow to many more	V
That thing takes all the room He moved his goad	W
The mountain stood there to be pointed at	X
Pasture ran up the side a little way	J
And then there was a wall of trees with trunks	Y
After that only tops of trees and cliffs	Z
Imperfectly concealed among the leaves	A2
A dry ravine emerged from under boughs	B2
Into the pasture	Q
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That looks like a path	C2
Is that the way to reach the top from here	T
Not for this morning but some other time	D2
I must be getting back to breakfast now	E2
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I don't advise your trying from this side	F2
There is no proper path but those that have	G2
Been up I understand have climbed from Ladd's	H2
That's five miles back You can't mistake the place	I2
They logged it there last winter some way up	J2
I'd take you but I'm bound the other way	J
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You've never climbed it	K2
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I've been on the sides	L2
Deer hunting and trout fishing There's a brook	N
That starts up on it somewhere I've heard say	J
Right on the top tip top a curious thing	N
But what would interest you about the brook	N
It's always cold in summer warm in winter	Q
One of the great sights going is to see	M2
It steam in winter like an ox's breath	N2
Until the bushes all along its banks	O2
Are inch deep with the frosty spines and bristles	P2
You know the kind Then let the sun shine on it	K2
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There ought to be a view around the world	Q2
From such a mountain if it isn't wooded	R2
Clear to the top I saw through leafy screens	S2
Great granite terraces in sun and shadow	A
Shelves one could rest a knee on getting up	J2
With depths behind him sheer a hundred feet	T2
Or turn and sit on and look out and down	U2
With little ferns in crevices at his elbow	A
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As to that I can't say But there's the spring	N
Right on the summit almost like a fountain	O
That ought to be worth seeing	N
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If it's there	V2
You never saw it	K2
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I guess there's no doubt	W2
About its being there I never saw it	K2
It may not be right on the very top	X2
It wouldn't have to be a long way down	U2
To have some head of water from above	Y2
And a good distance down might not be noticed	Z2
By anyone who'd come a long way up	J2
One time I asked a fellow climbing it	K2
To look and tell me later how it was	A3
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What did he say	J
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He said there was a lake	N
Somewhere in Ireland on a mountain top	X2
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But a lake's different What about the spring	N
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He never got up high enough to see	M2
That's why I don't advise your trying this side	F2
He tried this side I've always meant to go	A
And look myself but you know how it is	B3
It doesn't seem so much to climb a mountain	O
You've worked around the foot of all your life	C3
What would I do Go in my overalls	D3
With a big stick the same as when the cows	B2
Haven't come down to the bars at milking time	D2
Or with a shotgun for a stray black bear	V2
'Twouldn't seem real to climb for climbing it	K2
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I shouldn't climb it if I didn't want to	E3
Not for the sake of climbing What's its name	F3
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We call it Hor I don't know if that's right	G3
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Can one walk around it Would it be too far	H3
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You can drive round and keep in Lunenburg	A
But it's as much as ever you can do	E3
The boundary lines keep in so close to it	K2
Hor is the township and the township's Hor	H3
And a few houses sprinkled round the foot	I3
Like boulders broken off the upper cliff	J3
Rolled out a little farther than the rest	C
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Warm in December cold in June you say	J
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I don't suppose the water's changed at all	E
You and I know enough to know it's warm	K3
Compared with cold and cold compared with warm	K3
But all the fun's in how you say a thing	A
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You've lived here all your life	C3
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Ever since Hor	H3
Was no bigger than a What I did not hear	H3
He drew the oxen toward him with light touches	L3
Of his slim goad on nose and offside flank	A
Gave them their marching orders and was moving	A

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