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Memorial

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The wild October sky     Rises not so high,     The tree's roots that creep     Into the earth's body thrust not so deep     As our high and dark thought.     Yet thought need not roam     Far off to bring you home.     The sky is our wild mind,     Your roots are round our spirits twined,     To ours are your hearts caught.     O, never buried dead!     The living brain in the head     Is not so quick as you     Burning our conscious darkness through     With brightness past our thought.

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