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SPEAK ALWAYS OF WHEN I WAS YOUNG
Speak always of when I was young,
“Twenty decades or so ago”
Or as it may apply to you
When your feet but wrestled to walk.
We stood on prime branches of trees
And got their fruits so far away
Except my daddy said to me
You might fall if carelessly climbed.
And call again the almond tree;
And price my powers upon its branch;
And hang my price upon its glow;
The leaking, dripping blood that flowed.
My daddy did warn me of times:
Of times but as a growing child,
Of times too as a growing man;
A time to grow teeth and to climb.
To pluralize my types of pain;
My report card upon his desk:
“My boy you not [or] did so well”
For which some children hid in farms.
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SPEAK ALWAYS OF WHEN I WAS YOUNG
SPEAK ALWAYS OF WHEN I WAS YOUNG
