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Twenty men crossing a bridge, / Into a village, / Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges, / Into twenty villages, / Or one man / Crossing a single bridge into a village.
This is old song / That will not declare itself...
Twenty men crossing a bridge, / Into a village, / Are / Twenty men crossing a bridge / Into a village.
That will not declare itself / Yet is certain as meaning...
The boots of the men clump / On the boards of the bridge. / The first white wall of the village / Rises through fruit-trees. / Of what was it I was thinking?
So the meaning escapes.
The first white wall of the village... / The fruit-trees....