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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>XX. To the Pole<BR>
When I am heard, and what I say is solely<BR>And half-starved foxes shake and paw<BR>
demonstrating their talent for comedy—stroke<BR>Everywhere, utterly.<BR>
Scrawny wolves, and you,<BR>Winds blow sharp, what then?<BR>
To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire,<BR>Gray the cloud-like oaks<BR>
Traces of those deep cuts lie thickly upon<BR>Of too much truth to do much more than lie<BR>
My keyhole blows a gale<BR>To mark that square, perhaps: were Mère and Père<BR>
Sits at the limit of a kind of world<BR>My soul lies cracked; and when, in its despair,<BR>
Figures of light and dark, these two are walking<BR>And off the white smoke swims<BR>
That patch of white at the very end of the road<BR>into early blooming. Then, the inevitable blizzard<BR></FONT></DIV>
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