This is gorgeous, Lawrence! I love the way it hangs and sort of drips, like
an icicle, in the middle passages, then comes to rest so unexpectedly on
"more" (light, movement). Thanks so much for posting it--and warmest wishes
backatcha--Candice
P.S. I couldn't help perversely imagining Goethe's reaction to it as
something of this sort: "Oh sure, all the MORE LIGHT for YOU, Mr. Upton, but
I'm STILL dead!"
on 12/22/01 5:20 PM, Lawrence Upton at [log in to unmask]
wrote:
> It's taken me a day or so since Candice's call to find a copy of this!
>
> It was made some years ago as a small booklet with different size pages
> folding over each other to make the verses
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> I'll do my best to rework it for a single plain text page
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> a little
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> more light
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> stilling movement
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> a light,
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> little more
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> a light stilling
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> little movement
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> little light
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> stilling;
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> more;
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> stilling
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> a movement
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> a stilling
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> movement
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> light movement
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> stilling movement
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> a little
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> a little movement
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> more light
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> more movement
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> For those of us in the northern hemisphere, there will be a little more
> light daily and I may move from this keyboard soon. Time, perhaps, for a
> greeting
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> I have nothing to say of eternity, but I wish you all, unreservedly, my best
> wishes
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