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I think I will learn some beautiful language, useless for commercial / Purposes, work hard at that.
I think I will learn the Latin name of every songbird, not only in America but wherever they sing.
(Shun meditation, though; invite the controversial: / Is the world flat? Do bats eat cats? ) By digging hard I might deflect that river, my mind, that uncontrollable thing, / Turgid and yellow, strong to overflow its banks in spring, carrying away bridges;
A bed of pebbles now, through which there trickles one clear narrow stream, following a course henceforth nefast- / Dig, dig; and if I come to ledges, blast.