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By this part of the century few are left who believe	A
in the animals for they are not there in the carved parts	B
of them served on plates and the pleas from the slatted trucks	C
are sounds of shadows that possess no future	D
there is still game for the pleasure of killing	E
and there are pets for the children but the lives that followed	F
courses of their own other than ours and older	D
have been migrating before us some are already	G
far on the way and yet Peter with his gaunt cheeks	H
and point of white beard the face of an aged Lawrence	I
Peter who had lived on from another time and country	G
and who had seen so many things set out and vanish	J
still believed in heaven and said he had never once	I
doubted it since his childhood on the farm in the days	K
of the horses he had not doubted it in the worst	L
times of the Great War and afterward and he had come	M
to what he took to be a kind of earthly	G
model of it as he wandered south in his sixties	N
by that time speaking the language well enough	O
for them to make him out he took the smallest roads	P
into a world he thought was a thing of the past	Q
with wildflowers he scarcely remembered and neighbors	R
working together scything the morning meadows	S
turning the hay before the noon meal bringing it in	T
by milking time husbandry and abundance	I
all the virtues he admired and their reward bounteous	I
in the eyes of a foreigner and there he remained	U
for the rest of his days seeing what he wanted to see	I
until the winter when he could no longer fork	V
the earth in his garden and then he gave away	W
his house land everything and committed himself	X
to a home to die in an old chateau where he lingered	Y
for some time surrounded by those who had lost	Z
the use of body or mind and as he lay there he told me	I
that the wall by his bed opened almost every day	W
and he saw what was really there and it was eternal life	A2
as he recognized at once when he saw the gardens	I
he had made and the green fields where he had been	T
a child and his mother was standing there then the wall would close	I
and around him again were the last days of the world	B2

William Stanley Merwin

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