But You Dont Push The River

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    Birth, and copulation, and death.
    That’s all the facts when you come to brass tacks:
    Birth, and copulation, and death.
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    You dont remember, but I remember,
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    The young elm that must be cut
    because its roots push at the house wall
    taps and scrapes my window
    urgently but when I look round at it
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    At sundown, leaving the river road awhile for shortness, we went by way of Enfield, where we stopped for the night. This, like most of the localities bearing names on this road, was a place to name which, in the midst of the unnamed and unincorporated wilderness, was to make a distinction without a difference, it seemed to me.
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