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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>At the white place of the road's vanishing<BR>
That desire has ever built, have approached<BR>To mark that square, perhaps: were Mère and Père<BR>
How bittersweet it is, on winter's night,<BR>What is there in the depths of these walls<BR>
In a single floral stroke,<BR>This perfection, this absence.<BR>
They move against, or through, or by, or toward.<BR>What can we know of whatever picture-plane<BR>
Columbuses or Gamas, ever pass,<BR>Only a fox whose den I cannot find.<BR>
Or by the loud hand of painting, always puts.<BR>III. Chronology of Northern Exploration<BR>
That only you and I can know. Les deux<BR>Against which we have been projected? What . . .<BR>
Dreaming time has reversed—and you,<BR>Would their world not remain comfortably<BR>
To watch me watch drowned snow lift from the lake.<BR>I might have happily lived some other childhood.<BR></FONT></DIV>
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