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<DIV>I seek, above all, in the wandering<br>But when, on the timepieces that we call<br>With sun's warmth wasted on a stone,<br>The weight of being born into exile is lifted.<br>Of too much truth to do much more than lie<br>Beyond ice floe and berg and ice-bound sea,<br>Dismal, endless plain—<br>Allowing me to let your picture form and wake<br>XI. Franklin's Last Voyage<br>Preface to the 1970 Edition<br>And he is swathed in ever-petrified dread;<br>When I am heard, and what I say is solely<br>I bring down a bit of its light<br>That only you and I can know. Les deux<br>That patch of white at the very end of the road<br>For any part of them we can make out<br>At San Biagio, in the most intense room<br>Mère and Père Chose are walking away from the<br>Cascading snowflakes settle in the pines,<br></DIV>
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