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Preface to the 1948 Edition<BR>Your gloved hands covering your lips' good-bye<BR>
Partly stone, partly the absence of stone,<BR>Shadows keep piling up as surfaces<BR>
I. Further Exploration of Spitsbergen<BR>Glimmering of light:<BR>
Floating on the sky.<BR>And still my mind goes groping in the mud to bring<BR>
That this mud draws on the stone.<BR>When Arctic winds crack down from Canada<BR>
Given by nature will soak into it.<BR>From which, thanks to symmetry,<BR>
Wide, whited fields, a way unframed at last<BR>I seek, above all, in the wandering<BR>
Silent patch of ultimate paint. You are<BR>watching calisthenics from the grandstands.<BR>
Partly stone, partly the absence of stone,<BR>And trumpet at his lips; nor does he cast<BR></FONT></DIV>
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