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A governor it was proclaimed this time	A
When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire	B
Ancestral memories might come together	B
And those of the name Stark gathered in Bow	C
A rock strewn town where farming has fallen off	D
And sprout lands flourish where the axe has gone	E
Someone had literally run to earth	F
In an old cellar hole in a by road	G
The origin of all the family there	H
Thence they were sprung so numerous a tribe	I
That now not all the houses left in town	J
Made shift to shelter them without the help	K
Of here and there a tent in grove and orchard	L
They were at Bow but that was not enough	M
Nothing would do but they must fix a day	N
To stand together on the crater's verge	O
That turned them on the world and try to fathom	P
The past and get some strangeness out of it	Q
But rain spoiled all The day began uncertain	R
With clouds low trailing and moments of rain that misted	Q
The young folk held some hope out to each other	B
Till well toward noon when the storm settled down	J
With a swish in the grass What if the others	S
Are there they said It isn't going to rain	T
Only one from a farm not far away	N
Strolled thither not expecting he would find	Q
Anyone else but out of idleness	U
One and one other yes for there were two	V
The second round the curving hillside road	Q
Was a girl and she halted some way off	D
To reconnoitre and then made up her mind	Q
At least to pass by and see who he was	W
And perhaps hear some word about the weather	B
This was some Stark she didn't know He nodded	Q
No f te to day he said	Q
It looks that way	N
She swept the heavens turning on her heel	X
I only idled down	J
I idled down	J
Provision there had been for just such meeting	Y
Of stranger cousins in a family tree	Z
Drawn on a sort of passport with the branch	A2
Of the one bearing it done in detail	B2
Some zealous one's laborious device	C2
She made a sudden movement toward her bodice	D2
As one who clasps her heart They laughed together	B
Stark he inquired No matter for the proof	E2
Yes Stark And you	V
I'm Stark He drew his passport	Q
You know we might not be and still be cousins	F2
The town is full of Chases Lowes and Baileys	G2
All claiming some priority in Starkness	D2
My mother was a Lane yet might have married	Q
Anyone upon earth and still her children	R
Would have been Starks and doubtless here to day	N
You riddle with your genealogy	Z
Like a Viola I don't follow you	V
I only mean my mother was a Stark	H2
Several times over and by marrying father	B
No more than brought us back into the name	I2
One ought not to be thrown into confusion	R
By a plain statement of relationship	J2
But I own what you say makes my head spin	K2
You take my card you seem so good at such things	L2
And see if you can reckon our cousinship	J2
Why not take seats here on the cellar wall	M2
And dangle feet among the raspberry vines	N2
Under the shelter of the family tree	Z
Just so that ought to be enough protection	R
Not from the rain I think it's going to rain	T
It's raining	Y
No it's misting let's be fair	H
Does the rain seem to you to cool the eyes	O2
The situation was like this the road	Q
Bowed outward on the mountain half way up	J2
And disappeared and ended not far off	D
No one went home that way The only house	P2
Beyond where they were was a shattered seedpod	Q
And below roared a brook hidden in trees	G2
The sound of which was silence for the place	Q2
This he sat listening to till she gave judgment	Q
On father's side it seems we're let me see	Z
Don't be too technical You have three cards	R2
Four cards one yours three mine one for each branch	A2
Of the Stark family I'm a member of	S2
D'you know a person so related to herself	T2
Is supposed to be mad	Q
I may be mad	Q
You look so sitting out here in the rain	T
Studying genealogy with me	Z
You never saw before What will we come to	V
With all this pride of ancestry we Yankees	G2
I think we're all mad Tell me why we're here	U2
Drawn into town about this cellar hole	V2
Like wild geese on a lake before a storm	W2
What do we see in such a hole I wonder	B
The Indians had a myth of Chicamoztoc	Y
Which means The Seven Caves that We Came out of	S2
This is the pit from which we Starks were digged	V
You must be learned That's what you see in it	V
And what do you see	Z
Yes what do I see	Z
First let me look I see raspberry vines	N2
Oh if you're going to use your eyes just hear	U2
What I see It's a little little boy	X2
As pale and dim as a match flame in the sun	R
He's groping in the cellar after jam	Y2
He thinks it's dark and it's flooded with daylight	V
He's nothing Listen When I lean like this	D2
I can make out old Grandsir Stark distinctly	Z
With his pipe in his mouth and his brown jug	Y
Bless you it isn't Grandsir Stark it's Granny	Z
But the pipe's there and smoking and the jug	Y
She's after cider the old girl she's thirsty	Z
Here's hoping she gets her drink and gets out safely	Z
Tell me about her Does she look like me	Z
She should shouldn't she you're so many times	Z2
Over descended from her I believe	A3
She does look like you Stay the way you are	B3
The nose is just the same and so's the chin	K2
Making allowance making due allowance	C3
You poor dear great great great great Granny	Z
See that you get her greatness right Don't stint her	B
Yes it's important though you think it isn't	V
I won't be teased But see how wet I am	Y2
Yes you must go we can't stay here for ever	B
But wait until I give you a hand up	J2
A bead of silver water more or less	D3
Strung on your hair won't hurt your summer looks	E3
I wanted to try something with the noise	F3
That the brook raises in the empty valley	Z
We have seen visions now consult the voices	G3
Something I must have learned riding in trains	H3
When I was young I used the roar	I3
To set the voices speaking out of it	V
Speaking or singing and the band music playing	Y
Perhaps you have the art of what I mean	J3
I've never listened in among the sounds	K3
That a brook makes in such a wild descent	V
It ought to give a purer oracle	L3
It's as you throw a picture on a screen	J3
The meaning of it all is out of you	V
The voices give you what you wish to hear	U2
Strangely it's anything they wish to give	M3
Then I don't know It must be strange enough	M
I wonder if it's not your make believe	A3
What do you think you're like to hear to day	V
From the sense of our having been together	B
But why take time for what I'm like to hear	U2
I'll tell you what the voices really say	V
You will do very well right where you are	B3
A little longer I mustn't feel too hurried	V
Or I can't give myself to hear the voices	G3
Is this some trance you are withdrawing into	V
You must be very still you mustn't talk	Y
I'll hardly breathe	N3
The voices seem to say	V
I'm waiting	Y
Don't The voices seem to say	V
Call her Nausicaa the unafraid	V
Of an acquaintance made adventurously	L3
I let you say that on consideration	R
I don't see very well how you can help it	V
You want the truth I speak but by the voices	G3
You see they know I haven't had your name	I2
Though what a name should matter between us	U
I shall suspect	V
Be good The voices say	V
Call her Nausicaa and take a timber	B
That you shall find lies in the cellar charred	V
Among the raspberries and hew and shape it	V
For a door sill or other corner piece	O3
In a new cottage on the ancient spot	V
The life is not yet all gone out of it	V
And come and make your summer dwelling here	U2
And perhaps she will come still unafraid	V
And sit before you in the open door	I3
With flowers in her lap until they fade	V
But not come in across the sacred sill	L3
I wonder where your oracle is tending	Y
You can see that there's something wrong with it	V
Or it would speak in dialect Whose voice	P3
Does it purport to speak in Not old Grandsir's	P3
Nor Granny's surely Call up one of them	Q3
They have best right to be heard in this place	P3
You seem so partial to our great grandmother	B
Nine times removed Correct me if I err	H
You will be likely to regard as sacred	V
Anything she may say But let me warn you	V
Folks in her day were given to plain speaking	Y
You think you'd best tempt her at such a time	A
It rests with us always to cut her off	D
Well then it's Granny speaking 'I dunnow	R
Mebbe I'm wrong to take it as I do	V
There ain't no names quite like the old ones though	R3
Nor never will be to my way of thinking	Y
One mustn't bear too hard on the new comers	P3
But there's a dite too many of them for comfort	V
I should feel easier if I could see	P3
More of the salt wherewith they're to be salted	V
Son you do as you're told You take the timber	B
It's as sound as the day when it was cut	V
And begin over' There she'd better stop	J2
You can see what is troubling Granny though	R3
But don't you think we sometimes make too much	S3
Of the old stock What counts is the ideals	P3
And those will bear some keeping still about	V
I can see we are going to be good friends	P3
I like your 'going to be ' You said just now	R
It's going to rain	R
I know and it was raining	Y
I let you say all that But I must go now	R
You let me say it on consideration	R
How shall we say good bye in such a case	P3
How shall we	P3
Will you leave the way to me	P3
No I don't trust your eyes You've said enough	M
Now give me your hand up Pick me that flower	B
Where shall we meet again	R
Nowhere but here	U2
Once more before we meet elsewhere	H
In rain	R
It ought to be in rain Sometime in rain	R
In rain to morrow shall we if it rains	P3
But if we must in sunshine So she went	V