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£^0 Salvage ?^?? ? And such tender? Ask why it is so, A personal thing, Remembering Personal means mask, Why it is so That I should go On and on to the strange river Up the country, To stay at some outlandish passage, Turn the why and wherefore Into portage, Call that lake the miniature And home of music, ring On the still water Ring in being of motion, The sail-rock skipped in humor To ring in being, Thought upon the water Timed and singingWhy that way Outland, or up the country Inland? Inlander? Who would be there to help, Few to listen, lake to glisten, The few thece to be mirror, Repeat the passage To that glass and motion, 81 Too few your crew— And for what profit? 2 Should I say a nuthatch flew, Or flicker, Between the cedar and the cornel-tree? And suddenly Came great review, The color of late summer In the yard, The Indian old field And madder lake, the root And Indian red, the balsam And goldenrod, The berry and hibiscus there, Programmed mallow Toward the single rose, Impinged The peppers of the bush, The tinge imperial still And right Against the provinces Of night And border of the judas-tree Across the lily-leaf— All this, the passage Present, flicker here Not to be seen, Withdrawn in laurel green, But seen or not, what's he? And what's the shining difference? Much, that suddenly Came great review. 82 3 And here—too few the crew, And whose the interest? Such capital Suddenly Gold upon the bank Of summer, Teller proved current With the rest, the review And interest of the test, And all made real in the book Of credit and the faith And such tender As never Failed when drawn upon, Mirror to flicker and flash This capital And dividend as real As any gold leaf under heel— The principle, practice And profit, The capital compounded, Invested, diversified, And multiplied, Improved, the shining Incorporated, Sheltered, in time and space And personal as difference, Secure, withdrawn, not seen, But sure no less, and real As parable. —Woodridge Spears 83 ...

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