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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Preface to the 1970 Edition<BR>
Down the long course of the gray slush of things<BR>
Astonished that you have returned to go<BR>
As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light,<BR>
Toward the still dab of white that oscillates<BR>
Billows the fog, cloaks<BR>
Out of the picture of life, as it were, out<BR>
will be penciled on the coffeeshop menus.<BR>
Only whirled snow heaped up by whirled snow,<BR>
That rings, with faithful tongue, its pious note<BR>
It is as though I were at a second threshold.<BR>
Although December's frost killed the winter crop,<BR>
with visors. Their brave recreational vehicles<BR>
Where lamps are lit: these, too,<BR>
Scrawny wolves, and you,<BR>
Where, as I discover as I go through<BR>
Or else, like us, sunk into some long gaze<BR>
The line between the outside and this room<BR>
For any part of them we can make out<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>